In Queens, New York, ten-year-old Akilah is determined to find out why her closest friend, Victoria, is silent and withdrawn after returning from a trip to her homeland, Nigeria.
year: 2004, 2021
call number/section: 1000
subjects: friendship, fiction, female circumcision, nigerian americans, african americans, schools, queens (new york, n.y.), fiction, juvenile fiction, coming of age, school stories, juvenile fiction, bildungsromans
Editions
Williams-Garcia, Rita
HarperCollins (2004)
In Queens, New York, ten-year-old Akilah is determined to find out why her closest friend, Victoria, is silent and withdrawn after returning from a trip to her homeland, Nigeria.
Schools: 17
Williams-Garcia, Rita
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2021)
In Queens, New York, ten-year-old Akilah is determined to find out why her closest friend, Victoria, is silent and withdrawn after returning from a trip to her homeland, Nigeria.
Schools: 1