num_pages: 314
description: Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas and rumor has it that somewhere djinn still perform their magic. For humans its an unforgiving place especially if youre poor orphaned or female.Amani AlHiza is all three. Shes a gifted gunslinger with perfect aim but she cant shoot her way out of Dustwalk the back-country town where shes destined to wind up wed or dead.Then she meets Jin a rakish foreigner in a shooting contest and sees him as the perfect escape route. But though shes spent years dreaming of leaving Dustwalk she never imagined shed gallop away on mythical horseor that it would take a foreign fugitive to show her the heart of the desert she thought she knew.Rebel of the Sands reveals what happens when a dream deferred explodesin the fires of rebellion of romantic passion and the all-consuming inferno of a girl finally at long last embracing her power.
language: English
title: Rebel of the Sands
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers