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Kurtz, Jane.
IN THE SMALL, SMALL NIGHT
New York : Amistad, 2005.
IL K-3
ISBN 0066238137
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Have you ever had trouble falling asleep at night?  Sometimes when you are lying in your bed in the dark, the world can seem really big and maybe a little scary.  For Abena's little brother Kofi, it is even a little more scary since they moved from Ghana to America.  But Abena tells stories from their homeland and Kofi begins to feel at home.
SUBJECTS:     Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
                        Immigrants -- Fiction.
                        Ghanaian Americans -- Fiction.
                        Storytelling -- Fiction.
                        Wisdom -- Fiction.
                        Perseverance (Ethics) -- Fiction.

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