This Newbery Honor book is an extensive resource on African culture. It is a doosie of a book! Nhamo, the main character, follows her grandmother's advice and learns her village (and everything she has ever known) to find her father's family and avoid an arranged marriage. The story unfolds into a journey of survival that rivals Paulsen's Hatchet or George's My Side of the Mountain.
Nhamo overcomes drought and starvation, crocodiles, a leopard (both real and imagined), dogs and baboons to find her place int he world as she gets help from another one. "The paths of the body are long, but the paths of the spirit are short." 293 The plot in this story take s some interesting twists and turns as Nhamo finds her own place in the world.
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