Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family / by Mitch Albom.
By: Albom, Mitch.
Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, c2019Description: 243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Media type: unmediated ISBN: 9780062952394; 0062952390.Subject(s): Jeune, Chika, 2010-2017 | Albom, Mitch, 1958- | Orphans--Haiti--Biography | Brain--Cancer | Cancer in children | FamiliesDDC classification: Fic 362.77 Al149 2019 Summary: "Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chika's arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, "No one in Haiti can help you with." Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chika's boundless optimism and humor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learns that a relationship built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost. Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they formed -- a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family, regardless of how it is made."--provided by publisher.| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Cirr 800 T711e 1993 HBJ treasury of literature : endless worlds / Roger C. Farr, et al. | D P58 2000 The Iliad of Homer / | Fic 234 St1 1971 Faith and religious life : | Fic 362.77 Al149 2019 Finding Chika : | Fic B193 2005 Cut from the same cloth / | Fic B41d 1982 The dean's December | Fic H31 1991 The scarlet letter : complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Ross C. Murfin |
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"Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chika's arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, "No one in Haiti can help you with." Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chika's boundless optimism and humor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learns that a relationship built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost. Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they formed -- a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family, regardless of how it is made."--provided by publisher.
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