Kai
Subtitle: a mission for her village--Africa, 1440
By: by Dawn C. Gill Thomas ; illustrated by Vanessa Holley.
Contributors: Holley, Vanessa, ill.
Edition: 1st Aladdin paperbacks ed.
Series: Girlhood journeys
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Sisters -- Fiction.; Yoruba (African people) -- Fiction.; Africa -- Fiction.
Description: In fifteenth-century Africa, Kai and her beautiful but lazy older sister Jamila undertake a perilous four-day journey to another Yoruba village, seeking help for their starving tribe after the blight of the yam crop.
Notes: "Ages 7-11"--Cover p. [4].
"Girlhood journeys collection."