num_pages: 296
description: An orphaned boy in contemporary Senegal must decide between doing what is right and what is easy as he struggles to keep a promise he made to his dying father.Eleven-year-old Mor was used to hearing his fathers voice even if no one else could since his fathers death. It was comforting. It was also a reminder that Mor had made a promise to his father before he passed: keep your sisters safe. Keep the family together. But almost as soon as they are orphaned that promise seems impossible to keep. With an aunt from the big city ready to separate him and his sisters as soon as she arrives and a gang of boys from a nearby village wanting everything he hasincluding his spiritMor is tested in ways he never imagined. With only the hot summer months to prove himself Mor must face a choice. Does he listen to his father and keep his heart true but risk breaking his promise through failure? Or is it easier to just join the Danka Boys whom in all their maliciousness are at least loyal to their own?
language: English
title: One Shadow on the Wall
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers