A girl called Problem
By: by Katie Quirk
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Grand Rapids MI
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780802854049
Subjects: Blessing and cursing; Healers; Juvenile fiction; Villages; Fiction; Household Moving; Mothers and daughters; Sukuma (African people); Farm life; History
Description: In 1967 Tanzania, when President Nyerere urges his people to work together as one extended family, the people of Lawanima move to a new village which, to some, seems cursed, but where thirteen-year-old Shida, a healer, and her female cousins are allowed to attend school. Includes glossary and author's note.