by Kacen Callender
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, 12-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
Hurricane Child
Kacen Callender is the author of multiple books for children, teens, and adults, including the Stonewall and Lambda Literary award-winning Hurricane Child and King and the Dragonflies, a National Book Award winner and winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry. Born and raised in St. Thomas of the USVI, they enjoy playing video games in their free time. Kacen currently lives and writes in Philadelphia.
ISBN: 9781338129304
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: March 27, 2018Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Pages: 224
-Fathers and daughters -Missing persons
-Friendship -Mothers and daughters
-Hurricanes -Lesbians
-Friendship in children -Acting out (Psychology)
-African Americans -African American girls
-United States Virgin Islands