A Study Guide for Joanne Hyppolite's "Seth and Samona"

A Study Guide for Joanne Hyppolite's
Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9781375387699

A Study Guide for Joanne Hyppolite's "Seth and Samona," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literature of Developing Nations For Students for all of your research needs.

Seth and Samona

Seth and Samona
Author: Joanne Hyppolite
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307568210

Seth and Samona are an unlikely pair--he's a quiet boy from a proper Haitian-American family, and Samona's the wildest girl in the fifth grade. But he's her accomplice in every adventure. When Samona decides to enter the Little Miss Dorchester pageant, Seth decides he's got to stop her --she'll never win! But Samona has a big surprise in store for Seth.

Claws

Claws
Author: Dan Greenburg
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-03-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307483010

When Cody is 14, he runs away from home, leaving behind his abusive mother, and flees across the country. He doesn’t stop until he hits Texas and the Sam Houston Tiger Ranch. Under the guidance of Sunny, the ranch’s owner, he cares for the animals in ways he never imagined. He feeds them a diet of raw, bloody meat. He cleans out their cages. He takes them for exercise. He finds out how to get a tiger to back down, and when he should back down himself. But there is another lesson Cody has to learn—sometimes people are harder to handle than tigers.

Half and Half

Half and Half
Author: Lensey Namioka
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 030752969X

FIONA CHENG IS half and half: Her father is Chinese and her mother is Scottish. Fiona looks more like her father than her mother, so people always expect her to be more interested in her Chinese half than her Scottish half. Lately even Fiona’s confused about who she really is. “A realistic, gentle and funny tale.”—Detroit News & Free Press “Readers will identify with Fiona’s struggle to fit in.”—Publishers Weekly

Goodbye, Vietnam

Goodbye, Vietnam
Author: Gloria Whelan
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2010-11-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307770184

"When Mai's family discovers that Vietnam government soldiers will soon apprehend her father and grandmother, the family slips away in the night. They trudge through the swamps of the Mekong Delta toward the sea. The gut-wrenching trip to Hong Kong is just another step toward a new life, which the family eventually finds. Whelan's characters are distinctive, and her story is riveting, haunting, and memorable, reflecting the human virtues of determination, hope, love, and courage in the face of the most devastating of circumstances and injustices."--Booklist.

The Boxes

The Boxes
Author: William Sleator
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2000-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101142553

Annie's Uncle Marco goes on one of his mysterious trips, leaving her in charge of two sealed boxes on one condition: she must not open either one while he is away. But she is tempted...and soon she has unleashed the unspeakable. The creatures inside the box are crab-like and grotesque. And they possess a power Annie could never have imagined: the power to transmute time."Sleator is the master of the creepy-crawly, and his inventiveness is at full power here." --The Horn Book