Kai: A Mission for Her Village- Africa, 1440 (Girlhood Journeys Collection, Book 1)
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ISBN: 0689809867 / Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks, October 1996
In fifteenth-century Africa, Kai and her beautiful but lazy older sister Jamila undertake a perilous four-day journey to another Yoruba village, seeking help for their starving tribe after the blight of the yam crop
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In 1440, when a famine threatens the Yoruba village of Ife, the king chooses Kai and her sister to seek help from the Yoruba in the North, and they set out on foot through dense forest and golden savanna on an adventure that teaches them a great deal about their country and themselves. Simultaneous.
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