Muktar and the camels

By Janet Graber

Subjects: Eleven-year-old boys, Librarians, Somali child refugees, Orphanages, Camels in fiction, Camels, Refugees in fiction, Schools, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Orphans in fiction, Fiction, Kenya in fiction, Schools in fiction, Children's fiction, Kenya, fiction, Orphans, Child refugees, Camels, fiction, Somalis, Somalis in fiction, Juvenile fiction, Refugees, Refugees, fiction, Picture books, Schools

Description: Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling librarian with an injured camel arrives at his school.