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Curriculum details
- Course: Level 7 Literature
- Level four: Advanced children’s literature · See more level four books
- Seventh grade
- Core curriculum
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This Newberry Honor novel is set in a traditional African village, a setting rare in middle-grade fiction. When Nhamo is given away to be the wife of a cruel man, she must travel through rivers and forest to locate her father's family. She encounters nature and ancestral spirits as she survives in the wilderness, only to find her beliefs clash with the Westernized values of her relatives at the end of her journey.