num_pages: 336
description: On April 14 2014 Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls. Some managed to escape. Many are still missing. A new pair of shoes a university degree a husbandthese are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. A girl who works hard in school and to help her family. A girl with a future as bright as live coals in the dark. And with a government scholarship right around the corner everyoneher mother her five brothers her best friend her teacherscan see that these dreams arent too far out of reach. Even if the voices on Papas radio tell more fearful news than tales to tell by moonlight.But the girls dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram a terrorist group in the middle of the night. Kidnapped she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captors radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything shes been told. Still the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem her lifeher futureis hers to fight for.
language: None
title: Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
publisher: Katherine Tegen Books