Cultural Region/African
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Nya’s Long Walk: A Step at a Time
$19.99 Read moreIn this picture book companion to the beloved bestseller A Long Walk to Water, a young South Sudanese girl goes on a journey that requires determination, persistence, and compassion.
Young Nya takes li
- Author: Park, Linda Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 132878133X
- Language: English
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Broken Pride
$16.99 Add to cartHeed the call of the wild with this brand-new, action-packed animal fantasy series from the #1 nationally bestselling author of Warriors. Enter the Bravelands…and discover the Erin Hunter series you
- Series: Bravelands #1
- Author: Hunter, Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0062642022
- Language: English
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The Clue in the Papyrus Scroll
$7.99 Add to cartIn this all-new very special mini-series, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations–all around the world! The Aldens arrive… [more below]
- Series: Boxcar Children Great Adventure #2
- Author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0807506990
- Language: English
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The Villain’s Dance
$16.95 Read moreFull of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain’s Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang.
Zaire. Late 90’s. Mobutu’s thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, th
- Author: Mwanza Mujila, Fiston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1646051270
- Language: English
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The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca
$18.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious… [more below]
- Author: Shah, Tahir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0553383108
- Language: English
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Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
$19.95 Add to cartA new and expanded edition of Peter Allison’s hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “Only food runs!”
With biting wit and tales of outrageous adventure, Peter Al
- Author: Allison, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149303538X
- Language: English
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Kibogo
$18.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
A new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature “Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world and brings i- Author: Mukasonga, Scholastique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1953861369
- Language: English
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Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
$8.99 Add to cartA Caldecott Honor Book
Moja Means One introduces children to counting in Swahili with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles through an easy-to-understand narr… [more below]- Series: Picture Puffin Books
- Author: Feelings, Muriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0140546626
- Language: English
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Mummies Unwrapped
$19.99 Add to cartWhat is a mummy? How exactly were they made? Is there really such a thing as a mummy’s curse? And find out why mummies were unwrapped in modern times.
Find out the answers to these questions (and man- Author: England, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887770505
- Language: English
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Chicken in the Kitchen
$18.99 Read moreWhat would you do if you woke up one night to find the shadow of a giant chicken passing your bedroom door? Go and investigate, of course!
When Anyaugo follows a giant chicken into her kitchen one w
- Author: Okorafor, Nnedi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1911373153
- Language: English
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Lunchbox Is On The Case Episode 3: Lunchbox Goes to Kenya
$11.99 Add to cart2nd Place Winner of The Book Fest Awards Spring 2023!
This is the third episode of Lunchbox Is On the Case series.
For Lunchbox the crime fighting dog, no case is too hard… or too far! When poachers t
- Author: Schick, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1087954754
- Language: English
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Mimi’s Village: And How Basic Health Care Transformed It
$18.99 Add to cartIn this fictionalized story about a real humanitarian problem facing many countries in the developing world today, readers meet Mimi, an ordinary girl from an ordinary family in Africa. When her young… [more below]
- Series: CitizenKid #10
- Author: Milway, Katie Smith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1554537223
- Language: English
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Imani’s Moon
$8.99 Add to cartA delightful mix of folklore and fantasy follows Little Imani as she works up the courage and confidence in herself to achieve big things.
Little Imani is the smallest one in her village. The other ch- Author: Brown-Wood, Janay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1934133582
- Language: English
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The Day of Ahmed’s Secret Trade Book
$9.99 Add to cartThe Day of Ahmed’s Secret
As young Ahmed delivers butane gas to customers all over the city of Cairo, he thinks, I have a secret. All day long, as he maneuvers his donkey cart through streets crowded w
- Author: Parry, Florence H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 25 1995
- ISBN10: 688140238
- Language: English
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Catch That Goat!
$9.99 Read moreChase after a mischievous goat! Ayoka has been left in charge of the family goat — but within minutes the goat has vanished. This Nigerian market tale uses humour to impart a message about responsibi
- Author: Alakija, Polly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 1846860571
- Language: English
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Julius Zebra: Entangled with the Egyptians!
$8.99 Read moreJulius Zebra is in ancient Egypt on his third madcap adventure. Will he and his friends make it out alive, or will they all end up entombed in a pyramid forever?
After being shipwrecked on the shores- Series: Julius Zebra
- Author: Northfield, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1536223352
- Language: English
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The Wind Rises: Book 1 of the Alma Series
$18.99 Read moreFROM THE BESTSELLING WINNER OF THE PRIX SORCI?RES
From Europe to Africa to the Caribbean, this first installment in the Alma trilogy tells a gripping story of hope, perseverance, and love that readers
- Series: Alma
- Author: de Fombelle, Timothée
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457870
- Language: English
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A Girl Named Disaster
$9.99 Add to cartThis Newbery Honor book by award-winning, bestselling author Nancy Farmer is being reissued in paperback
Eleven-year-old Nhamo lives in a traditional village in Mozambique, where she doesn’t quite fit… [more below]
- Author: Farmer, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0545356628
- Language: English
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Cloudburst: Volume 1
$9.99 Read moreThe epic adventure begins . . . Cloudburst is the first book in the Jack Courtney adventure series, for a whole new generation of fans!
A brand new Wilbur Smith series for young readers, starring fo- Series: A Jack Courtney Adventure
- Author: Smith, Wilbur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1848128533
- Language: English
