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Gr 3–6—After moving from a close-knit community in Haiti to Brooklyn to live with her uncle and his family, Gabrielle realizes that life in the United States is not the paradise that she was led to believe. Finding herself the target of taunts at school, Gabrielle is desperate to become a "real" American, and she succumbs to the overtures of a wily witch who offers to grant wishes in return for Gabrielle's essence. Against the advice of her new friends Carmen (a human classmate) and Rocky (...Log In or Sign Up to Read More