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Gr 5-9 Sixth-grader Dakar struggles to cope with her family's move from Africa, where her father worked to help the needy and gloried in adventure, to North Dakota, where she feels just as much an outsider as she did in Kenya, Egypt, Ethiopia, and boarding school. Her beloved older sister, Jakarta, stays behind; when forced to join them, she is first angry and then distant, immersed in high school basketball. When their mother and father leave suddenly and separately to do good elsewhere, the two girls manage on their own, but Dakar feels bereft. A w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More