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The Camel
Bookmobile: 31 hours
by
Masha Hamilton
Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters,
and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By
helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer,
Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily
with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules
are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not
returned, the bookmobile will not return.
But, encumbered by her Western values, Fi does not
understand the people she seeks to help. And in the impoverished small community
of Mididima, she finds herself caught in the middle of a volatile local struggle
when the bookmobile's presence sparks a dangerous feud between the proponents of
modernization and those who fear the loss of traditional ways.
From barnesandnoble.com
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