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Children of the Quicksands

Efua Traoré

Ages: 9+

Published: 2022

Publisher: Chicken House/Scholastic.

ISBN: 978-1-338-78192-2

Keywords: Nigeria, Yoruba language, Yoruba Mythology, family discord, gods

When city-bred Simi, 13, stays with her grandmother in a Nigerian village, she discovers Yoruba traditional beliefs and heroically tries to rescue children caught in a magical place. Back matter.