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1) Imani's moon
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English
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Little Imani of the Maasai people longs to do something great, like touching the moon, but the other children just laugh at her.
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English
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"James Patterson and award-winning Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable survival story of a Maasai girl who faces down poachers to find a future among the elephants. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old Maasai girl befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu,...
3) Countdown
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English
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In two parallel stories, a fourteen-year-old boy who is NASA's first Junior Astronaut and a fourteen-year-old Maasai herder in Kenya both edge into maturity while questioning their family traditions.
4) Thunder Cave
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English
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Jacob Lansa is an ordinary New York kid-riding his bike, fixing himself snacks after school, and anxiously awaiting letters from his father in Kenya. Then, suddenly, his mother is killed in a terrible accident. Pushed aside by his stepfather, Jacob makes an impulsive decision to set out on his own to find his father. In Africa, with minimal supplies and only his trusty mountain bike for transportation, Jacob faces wild lions, terrible grassland fires,...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When two young Kenyan boys, one Maasai and one Kikuyu, first meet, they are hostile toward each other based on traditional rivalries, but after they suddenly have to work together to save a baby in danger, the boys begin to discover what they have in common.
7) Masai and I
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Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Linda, a little girl who lives in the city, learns about East Africa and the Masai in school, and imagines what her life might be like if she were Masai.
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Publisher
Piemme
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Italiano
Description
"Contiene: "Appuntamento... col mistero!": a Londra un leone di bronzo si è messo... a parlare! Per scoprire che cosa sta succedendo, il mio amico Zero Zero Kappa mi ha inviato in missione segreta! "Il mistero del rubino d'Oriente": una mia cara amica aveva bisogno di aiuto per salvare un prezioso rubino, così sono partito insieme a Ficcanaso Squitt per... l'India! Che avventura stratopica! "Un topo in Africa": per mille mozzarelle, nonno Torquato...
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