Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna (National Geographic-memoirs)
by By Viola, Herman J. and Lekuton, Joseph Lemasolai
Category: Young Adult Nonfiction , People & Places , Africa

Offers young adults a true and informative look at growing up in a tribe of nomads in Kenya through one young man's tales of work, tradition, and survival as he encounters his first lion, helps his family with herding the cattle, and becomes initiated into manhood by the other tribesman.