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Category>>Literature>>Caribbean Writers Series
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Aunt Jen |
| Paulette Ramsay |
| Secondary school students |
| Sunshine, a young Jamaican girl, is desperate to know and understand her identity. |
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Bad Girls in Schools |
| Gwyneth Harold |
| Secondary school students |
| The atrocious behaviour of Taj, Cally and Katty, students at Redeemer College for girls, has disrupted the school... |
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Beka Lamb Second Edition |
| Zee Edgell |
| Secondary school students |
| The story of Beka's victory over her habit of lying, which she conquers after deceiving her father about a disgrace at school. |
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Beka Lamb with CXC Study Notes |
| Zee Edgell |
| Secondary school students |
| Set in Belize, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. |
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Children of the Sea |
| David Franklyn |
| Secondary school students |
| Set in Grenada, this is the story of three siblings and their adventures as they spend their summer holiday with their grandparents on Isle de Ronde. |
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Crick Crack Monkey |
| Merle Hodge |
| Secondary school students |
| A revealing novel of childhood about Tee who is being made socially acceptable by her Aunt Beatrice so that she can cope with the caste system of Trinidad. |
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Cricket In The Road and Other Stories |
| Michael Anthony |
| Secondary school students |
| These stories are all set in Trinidad and are by the author of "Green Days by the River" and "The Year in San Fernando". |
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Dilemmas of Deokie |
| Carol Sammy |
| Secondary school students |
| Dilemmas of Deokie is a brand new addition to the Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series, published in January 2010. The novel includes a map of Trinidad and Tobago and a glossary of the dialect words used in the story. |
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Doctor's Orders |
| Alecia McKenzie |
| Secondary school students |
| 'Doctor Ezekial' Baker and his accomplice Shorty tire of the 'three-card scam', after being chased by an angry crowd. Turning their attention to real estate, they sell mythical plots of land for a non-existent resort. Things are looking good until the two grandchildren of one of their 'investors' begin to track Doctor and Shorty across Jamaica. |
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Frangipani House Second Edition |
| Beryl Gilroy |
| Secondary school students |
| Frangipani House is the story of Mama King, trapped by age and infirmity, but indomitable. |
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Green Days by the River |
| Michael Anthony |
| Secondary school students |
| A novel about a boy on the edge of adult responsibilities, this is the story of Shell - a Trinidadian boy wtho moves to a new village and meets two girls. |
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Harriet's Daughter |
| Marlene Nourbese Philips |
| Secondary school students |
| Margaret - a second generation West Indian immigrant - and Zulma - fresh from Tobago - become friends in this novel that challenges stereotypical notions of strong, matriarchal black mothers and poor, abused, powerless white women. |
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Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry |
| Edited by Ian McDonald, Edited by Stewart Brown |
| Secondary school students |
| A comprehensive and up-to-date selection of contemporary Caribbean poetry, including major names such as Derek Walcott, John Agard and Merle Collins alongside new poets of the region. This book should provide both a valuable academic selection and a fine introduction for the general reader. |
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High Tide of Intrigue |
| Michael Anthony |
| Secondary school students |
| Police officer Maureen Mason-Adams is committed to her fight against drugs. When she discovers that fellow officers are in league with traffickers running between Trinidad and Grenada, the clean-up campaign becomes a personal campaign. |
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It Begins With Tears |
| Opal Palmer Adisa |
| Secondary school students |
| Kirstoff village, in the heart of rural Jamaica, is a peaceful home where evryone knows everyone else and looks out for eachother. Until Monica comes home. |
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Masters of the Dew |
| Jacques Roumain |
| Secondary school students |
| This Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during a drought. |
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Miguel Street |
| V. S. Naipaul |
| Secondary school students |
| Life in Trinidad is described through the eyes of a "street rab" in Miguel Street. The happy-go-lucky community abounds in eccentric characters. |
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October All Over |
| Maria Roberts-Squires |
| Secondary school students |
| Set in the aftermath of the Grenadian revolution, this work tracks the parallel lives of two generations of Grenadians: Ramona Duprey and Fabian Ferguson, the young lovers; and Norris Duprey and Leila Ferguson - old sweethearts who had separated, but are brought back together by their children's romance. |
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Pick of the Crop |
| Nailah Folami Imoja |
| Secondary school students |
| Leroi Baines is a young man with a real gift for music, especially Calypso. When he is invited to audition for the Uprising Calypso tent, and makes it to the finals for the Pick of the Crop competition, everything seems to be going his way. He must learn how to handle popularity - and counter threats. |
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Selected Poetry |
| Derek Walcott |
| Secondary school students |
| A selection of the poetry of Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. The nature of memory and the creative imagination, the history, politics and landscape of the West Indies, Walcott's loves and marriages and his enduring awareness of time and death, are recurring themes. |
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