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"In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells her a cautionary tale of the one-armed sister, and what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. Now Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences"--OCLC.

Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough for her daddy. That's why she makes a habit of scaring his new girlfriends away. She's desperate to make it onto her school's cricket team because she'll get to play her favorite sport AND use the cricket matches to distract Daddy from dating. But when Coach Broomes announces that girls can't try out for the team, the frustrated Josephine cuts into a powerful silk cotton tree and accidentally summons a bigger problem into her life...The next day, Daddy brings home a new catch, a beautiful woman named Mariss. And unlike the other girlfriends, this one doesn't scare easily. Josephine knows there's something fishy about Mariss but she never expected her to be a vengeful sea creature eager to take her place as her father's first love! Can Josephine convince her friends to help her and use her cricket skills to save Daddy from Mariss's clutches before it's too late?.

When his father moves the family to Barbados, thirteen-year-old Jack learns that life is not always idyllic on an island paradise.

Examines the life and career of Barbadian singer Rihanna.

Provides a biography chronicling the life and career of singer Rihanna.

When his father moves the family to Barbados, thirteen-year-old Jack learns that life is not always idyllic on an island paradise.

A brief biography of singer-songwriter Shontelle Layne that covers her childhood in Barbados, education, professional accomplishments, personal setbacks, and related topics.

When his father moves the family to Barbados, thirteen-year-old Jack learns that life is not always idyllic on an island paradise.

Andrea Stuart's maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to Barbados in the late 1630's. There he became a sugar plantation owner by chance and the sudden demand for sugar worldwide made him wealthy. Enslaved black workers did the labor and the sugar trade enriched Europe and financed the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. Sugar also enriched South American enonomies, helped the United States become a world power, and transformed the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches. Andrea Stuart's family story provides a concrete connection to this time in history and her exploration of the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar, and slavery ties the past to the present.