When her sister, star-athlete Jakarta, finally joins them, Dakar feels much safer and happier in Cottonwood, North Dakota, where she and their parents are living for a year, but she still longs for their home in Africa.
Related: Africa, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Kenya
- ISBN: 9780060294014
- Author: Kurtz, Jane
- Published: 2001
- Themes: Anne Frank, Holocaust, Jews in the Netherlands, World War II
- Descriptors: Africa, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Kenya