Awards

• Commended for Texas Lone Star Reading List 2013
• Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grades) 2014

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The outlaw at the heart of the plot, Yakuuba Sor, brings a heartening complexity and morality to this seldom-seen setting. Nonstop action in the African desert - Kirkus This thriller is a great way to get readers hooked while introducing them to the issues affecting contemporary Africa. - School Library Journal, starred review Nonstop action will please thriller fans. -- Bulletin

The outlaw at the heart of the plot, Yakuuba Sor, brings a heartening complexity and morality to this seldom-seen setting. Nonstop action in the African desert - Kirkus

Author Information

Stephen Davies, a missionary, lives with his wife and daughter among Fulani cattle herders in West Africa. He has been involved in the setup of a Fulfulde radio station which will broadcast news, griot music, and agricultural advice. In 2003 he won Africa Geographic's Travel Writer of the Year competition and in 2006 received the Glen Dimplex New Writers Children's Book Award. This is his second novel to be published in the U.S. He also writes Letters from Burkina Faso for the Guardian Weekly and occasionally for the Sunday (London) Times. His website is www.voiceinthedesert.org.uk.

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