e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Booklist Review
School Library Journal Review
More Content
More by this author
Quirk, Katie.
Subjects
Girls, Black -- Juvenile fiction.
Villages -- Tanzania -- Juvenile fiction.
Sukuma (African people) -- Juvenile fiction.
Healers -- Juvenile fiction.
Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
Blessing and cursing -- Juvenile fiction.
Farm life -- Tanzania -- Juvenile fiction.
Tanzania -- History -- 1964- -- Juvenile fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Quirk, Katie.
by title:
A girl called Proble...
by call number:
FICTION QUI
Search the Web
Quirk, Katie.
Girls, Black -- Juvenile fiction.
Villages -- Tanzania -- Juvenile fiction.
Sukuma (African people) -- Juvenile fiction.
Healers -- Juvenile fiction.
Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
Blessing and cursing -- Juvenile fiction.
Farm life -- Tanzania -- Juvenile fiction.
Tanzania -- History -- 1964- -- Juvenile fiction.
MARC Display
A girl called Problem / by Katie Quirk.
by
Quirk, Katie.
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION
QUI
Subjects
Girls, Black
--
Juvenile
fiction
.
Villages
--
Tanzania
--
Juvenile
fiction
.
Sukuma
(
African
people
)
--
Juvenile
fiction
.
Healers
--
Juvenile
fiction
.
Moving, Household
--
Juvenile
fiction
.
Mothers and daughters
--
Juvenile
fiction
.
Blessing and cursing
--
Juvenile
fiction
.
Farm life
--
Tanzania
--
Juvenile
fiction
.
Tanzania
--
History
--
1964-
--
Juvenile
fiction
.
ISBN:
9780802854049 (pbk.)
0802854044 (pbk.)
Description:
243 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Includes glossary and author's note.
Summary:
"Thirteen-year-old Shida, whose name means "problem" in Swahili, certainly has a lot of problems in her life — her father is dead, her depressed mother is rumored to be a witch, and everyone in her rural Tanzanian village expects her to marry rather than pursue her dream of becoming a healer. So when the village's elders make a controversial decision to move their
people
to a nearby village, Shida welcomes the change. Surely the opportunity to go to school and learn from a nurse can only mean good things. However, after a series of puzzling misfortunes plague the new village, Shida must prove to her
people
that moving was the right decision, and that they can have a better life in their new home."--From publisher.
Audience:
Grades 6-9. SLJ.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
No Item Information
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.