Today is my birthday! I’m squirming in my seat with excitement! The school bell to signal the end of the day is supposed to ring soon. It’s my first day of being 12 & so far it’s been great, all my friends brought me presents and balloons! But the best is yet to come…mom and dad got me a bra...

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat is a story about a girl named Sophie. She travels from Haiti to New York and meets her mother Martine. Martine suffers from violent nightmares because her mother used to test her virginity constantly. Eventually she does the same thing to Sophie. They dev...