Title: Mysterious traveler
Description: Desert guide Issa finds the baby girl Mariama after a sandstorm, and raises her as his own daughter--until a young man and his protectors come seeking a guide for their dangerous journey through the Bitter Mountains.

A mysterious stranger arrives at Issa and Mariama's doorstep, a stranger who will change both their lives for ever. The coauthor is Elspeth Graham.
Subjects: Travelers, Adopted children, Brothers and sisters, Missing children, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Deserts, fiction, Camels, fiction, Africa, fiction, Adventure stories, Camels, Fiction, Storms, Deserts, Child and youth fiction