About this book
Desert guide Issa finds the baby girl Mariama after a sandstorm, and raises her as his own daughter--until a young man and his protectors come seeking a guide for their dangerous journey through the Bitter Mountains.
A mysterious stranger arrives at Issa and Mariama's doorstep, a stranger who will change both their lives for ever. The coauthor is Elspeth Graham.
- Travelers
- Adopted children
- Brothers and sisters
- Missing children
- Juvenile fiction
- Children's fiction
- Deserts, fiction
- Camels, fiction
