Like apparently most of the people who read this book, I read it for my world books challenge and wasn’t particularly impressed. It seems to be aimed at middle-grade readers (ages 9-12), and recounts the childhood experiences of a boy named Daba as he leaves his village in the Central African Republ...
Central African Republic.This middle readers novel about a boy in the Central African Republic is a somewhat diluted bildungsroman, most interesting for its descriptions of the boy's daily life. While the village scenes are illuminating, the fluid and dynamic illustrations are its most charming and ...
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