![]() One day, Fabiola is approached by a detective. She slowly falls in love with a boy named Kasim, who is the best friend of Donna’s drug dealer boyfriend, Dray. ![]() Fabiola makes friends with a classmate who helps her improve her grades. Pri is the brawn of the group, Chantal is the brains, and Donna is the beauty. She grows close to her cousins, who are known around the school as the “Three Bees” because they protect each other fiercely. She often feels alone despite being surrounded by family.įabiola enrolls in school and struggles to adjust to American culture, which is simultaneously filled with money and poverty, along with an abundance of unhappiness. ![]() Fabiola finds Detroit cold and devoid of life she misses life back home with her friends and mother in Haiti. Fabiola is devastated and tries to persuade her aunt to free her mother from immigrant detention, but her aunt says that there is nothing to be done. ![]() They live in a house on the corner of American Street and Joy Road. Alone, Fabiola continues on to Detroit to move in with her cousins-Pri, Donna, and Chantal-and her Aunt (Matant) Jo. As she and her mother are reentering the US, immigrant authorities seize Fabiola’s mother, as they believe that she plans to overstay her visa and live permanently in the US. American Street tells the story of a teenage Haitian immigrant named Fabiola who moves back home to the United States, her country of birth. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Kingdom Come reality was designated Earth-22 (albeit with a few minor differences). The reality of Kingdom Come was re-introduced in 2006 as one of fifty-two parallel worlds in the recreated Multiverse. Waid and Ross wrote Kingdom Come as an indictment against the growing trend of violent anti-hero archetypes that had sprung out of the early 1990s, many of whom were created by DC's independent rival company Image Comics. The older, more established super-heroes had gone into retirement, giving rise to a new generation of anti-heroes, who did not uphold the same noble values as their predecessors. The setting for Kingdom Come took place some twenty years into the future of the year that it began publication. All four issues were collected in both softcover and hardcover editions as well as a slipcase Absolute Edition. The series was written by Mark Waid with fully painted illustrations and covers by Alex Ross. Like all Elseworlds, this series was set in an alternate reality outside that of the mainstream DC Universe. Kingdom Come Kingdom Come was a four-issue limited series published from May until August of 1996 under DC's Elseworlds imprint. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Margaret performs her stories and poems as she imagined them and they sound spectacular rolling off her tongue. The stories and poems that Margaret reads are ones that children and adults alike will be familiar with and you might even discover a new favourite story. It’s quite intimate and you feel like you are actually sitting right in front of her as she reads. Margaret Mahy’s Rumbustifications takes us inside Margaret’s home in Governor’s Bay as she reads 5 of her stories and 11 of her favourite poems to her grandchildren and pets. Margaret may no longer be with us but her stories live on and these new DVDs give an insight into her writing and present her stories and poems as they were intended. ![]() Two absolutely wonderful DVDs are released today that celebrate legendary New Zealand author Margaret Mahy and her magical tales. ![]() |