Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti

by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps

Book Overview

This collaboration between Harlem Renaissance writers Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes is an early African-Aamerican classic and a milestone in the history of literature for children. In this novel for young people, Popo and Fifina leave their home in the hills of Haiti to move with their parents to a town by the sea. The next few months are full of adventures--adjusting to a new home, a trip back to the hills for a visit, Popo's work as a carpenter's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087658
• ISBN13: 9780195087659
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7