Jamel Akib
2) Monsoon
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A child describes waiting for the monsoon rains to arrive and the worry that they will not come.
3) Divali rose
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
�2008
Language
English
Description
As the festival of Divali approaches, Ricki wants to confess that he accidentally broke a rosebud off the bush he and his grandfather planted, but grandfather is busy blaming the neighbors who are newly arrived in Trinidad from India. Includes facts about Divali and the people and language of Trinidad.