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Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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.
2) Imani's moon
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Little Imani of the Maasai people longs to do something great, like touching the moon, but the other children just laugh at her.
Author
Series
Detective Mollel mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In Nairobi's Uhuru Park, the police have recovered the body of a local prostitute. Detective Mollel, himself a former Maasai warrior, is assigned to the case. Like all great heroes in crime fiction, Mollel is complicated, even flawed. As Mollel pursues the death of the prostitute, he begins to suspect something far more extensive than an ordinary murder.
Publisher
distributed by Facets Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Masai
Description
Faced with a dangerous drought, Masai elders are convinced that they have been cursed by the Red God - the God of Vengeance. Following the death of the war chief, a group of adolescents band together to form a new generation of inexperienced but brave warriors, forcing them into adulthood. The young men must return with the mane of the legendary lion to appease the wrath of the Red God and bring back the rains. The survival of their culture depends...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An illuminating debut following three women in sub-Saharan Africa as they search for home and family. Leona, an isolated American anthropologist, gives birth to a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother, in spite of her own grim childhood. Jane, a lonely expat wife, follows her husband to the tropics and learns just how fragile life is. Simi, a barren Maasai woman, must confront her infertility in a society in...
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"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,...
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