Kai : a mission for her village--Africa, 1440 / by Dawn C. Gill Thomas ; illustrated by Vanessa Holley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Dawn C.

Contributor:

Holley, Vanessa, illustrator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Girlhood journeys.

Girlhood journeys

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yoruba (African people)--Juvenile fiction.

Yoruba (African people).

Africa--Juvenile fiction.

Africa.

Sisters--Fiction.

Yoruba (African people)--Fiction.

Africa--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

71, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

[1st Aladdin paperbacks ed.]

Place of Publication:

New York : Aladdin Paperbacks [an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, ©1996].

Summary:

In fifteenth-century Africa, Kai and her beautiful but lazy older sister Jamila undertake a perilous four-day journey to another Yoruba village, seeking help for their starving tribe after the blight of the yam crop.

Contents:

Kai's dream

The Oni's mission

The journey begins

Lost in the forest

Warriors on horseback

Oyo

Journey to 1440.

Notes:

"Girlhood journeys collection."

"First Aladdin Paperbacks edition October 1996."

"Designed by Wendy Letven Design."

"The text of this book is set in Garamond."

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has magenta sticker "Collectors' Club and contest information inside!" on front cover.

ISBN:

0689811403

9780689811401

0689809867

9780689809866

032903748X

9780329037482

OCLC:

34544370