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In 1967 Tanzania, when President Nyerere urges his people to work together as one extended family, the people of Litongo move to a new village which, to some, seems cursed, but where thirteen-year-old Shida, a healer, and her female cousins are allowed to attend school.
- ISBN: 9780802854049
- Author: Quirk, Katie
- Published: 2013 , Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
- Themes: Farm, Farm life, mother and daughter
- Descriptors: Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, Tanzania
- No. of pages: 243