Book 2013

A girl called Problem

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Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 2013

Blessing and cursing
Healers
Juvenile fiction
Villages
Fiction
Household Moving
Mothers and daughters
Sukuma (African people)

In 1967 Tanzania, when President Nyerere urges his people to work together as one extended family, the people of Lawanima 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. Includes glossary and author's note.