| | Author: | Nancy Farmer | | Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up | | Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up | | Genre: | fiction | | Year of publication: | 1994 |
In this Newbery Honor Book set in Zimbabwe in the year 2194, three siblings hurdle through a science fiction-y Africa and learn that even the most magical humans are not always honorable and even the most wicked exploiters can sometimes come through for you, but that family is family. |
The story gets a bit long sometimes, but because nearly every one of the many characters is blessed by Farmer with a complicated mixture of strengths and weaknesses, humanity and human frailties, readers will find themselves barely able to put the book down. |
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