Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling librarian with an injured camel arrives at his school.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: orphans, fiction, refugees, camels, school stories, somalis, kenya, fiction