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Champion of the 2013 Michael M. Printz Award This may be the tale of "Shorty"-a 15-yr-old kid trapped in a hospital throughout the quake in Haiti. Enclosed by the figures of the deceased, progressively weakened from insufficient water and food, Shorty starts to hallucinate. As he waits in darkness for a recovery that'll never come, a magical link appears to arise between him and Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, uniting both within their darkest enduring-and their hope.A contemporary teenager and a black servant, divided by centuries.