Girls in the Wild Fig Tree Children Fiction - Humorous Stories

Girls in the Wild Fig Tree Children Fiction - Humorous StoriesAn "elegant and inspiring memoir" by the human rights activist who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout Africa (Sonia Faleiro, New York Times). Nice Leng`ete was raised in a Maasai village in Kenya. In 1998, when Nice was six, her parents fell sick and died, and Nice and her sister Soila were taken in by their fathers brother, who had little interest in the

she learns to rely on the only one left she can trust: herself

With Dickery Dean

"A positive boost from a strong role model

Goldy's hungry for some answers--and not just because she found the corpse

Jones's The Known World is a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power and continues to show its importance to the American literary canon

claiming to be pregnant…with Ethan's baby

philosopher

was a powerful and passionate leader worshipped by her people as a god for her beauty and her accomplishments

beautiful duck and a clear-eyed kid to point out the obvious

As the leaves fall from his favorite tree

" —Tony Hillerman

free-spirited mother