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2018., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: REALISTIC F NWA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: One Nigerian girl's dreams---a government scholarship, a university degree, a husband---turn to dust when terrorist group Boko Haram kidnaps her and her two best friends.
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2020., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: E Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Lami is the best chicken catcher in the whole village. Her sister may be speedy at spelling, her friend fast at braiding hair, and her brother brave with bulls, but when it comes to chickens, nobody is faster or braver than Lami. That is, until the day when Lami chases a little too fast, up the baobab tree, and reaches a little too far...ow! How can she catch chickens with an ankle that's puffed up like an angry lizard? Could it be, as Nana Nadia says, that quick thinking is more important than quick running?"--From the publisher's web site.
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2012., Adult, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC ADI Edition: First Algonquin paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man has impossible expectations of his children and his wife, and if things don't go his way he becomes physically abusive. Not until Kambili and Jaja are sent away from home for the very first time to visit their loving aunt, does Kambili's world begin to blossom. But when a military coup threatens to destroy the country, the tension in her family's home escalates, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.
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Ã2003., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: TEEN FIC ADI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A teenaged Nigerian girl and her older brother struggle to cope with life in their tense, stifling household--caused by their father's demands for perfection--after getting a taste of freedom during a visit to their aunt's home.
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c2011., Other Press Call No: Historical fiction FIC WATSON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Blessing, seeing her family falling apart after her mother decides to leave her cheating father and move in with her family in a town without running water or electricity, finds comfort in the care of her grandmother who teaches her the ways of the midwife in rural Nigeria, but is faced with the realities of the world when she is exposed to genital mutilation and the environmental damage caused by British and American oil companies.
