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Once a fortnight the setlement of Madidima set deep in the dusty Kenyan desert, awaits the arrival of a train of camels laden down with panniers of books. The only condition of the camel bookmobile is that every book must be returned each week or else the visits will cease. Then one day a book is stolen.
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The camel bookmobile
2008, Harper Perennial
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0061173495 9780061173493
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The camel bookmobile
2007, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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0297851802 9780297851806
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Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned, the bookmobile will not return.But, encumbered by her Western values, Fi does not understand the people she seeks to help. And in the impoverished small community of Mididima, she finds herself caught in the middle of a volatile local struggle when the bookmobile's presence sparks a dangerous feud between the proponents of modernization and those who fear the loss of traditional ways.
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