When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home.

NC890L Lexile|||juvenile

by Edwidge Danticat ; illustrated by Leslie Staub.

Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.9 0.5 176658.