This collaboration between Harlem Renaissance writers Arna Bontemps and Langston
Hughes is an early African-Aamerican classic and a milestone in the history of
literature for children. In this novel for young people, Popo and Fifina leave
their home in the hills of Haiti to move with their parents to a town by the
sea. The next few months are full of adventures--adjusting to a new home, a trip
back to the hills for a visit, Popo's work as a carpenter's apprentice, the
children's fun with a wondrous kits made by their father, and even a trip to the
lighthouse at the end of the island and