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Painted warriors and wild lions
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Gilbert Morris |
When Duffy Kerrigan and her adopted brothers and sisters, who all come from different countries, accompany their widowed father on a trip to write about and photograph the Masai people in Africa, she… |
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First come the zebra
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Lynne Barasch |
When two young Kenyan boys, one Maasai and one Kikuyu, first meet, they are hostile toward each other based on traditional rivalries, but after they suddenly have to work together to save a baby in d… |
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Only the mountains do not move
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Reynolds, Jan |
"A photographic essay about the Maasai people in Kenya, traditionally nomadic herders, exploring the contemporary challenges they face--focusing on environmental changes such as the overgrazing of la… |
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Warrior princess
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Mindy Budgor |
While waiting for her business school applications to go through, Mindy Budgor decided to volunteer in Africa, helping build schools and hospitals in the Maasai Mara. When living and working with the… |
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Hell's gate
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Richard Crompton |
Mollel, "the Maasai warrior-turned-detective, has been banished from Nairobi, Kenya's bustling metropolis, to a small, fly-blown town on the edge of a national park. His career, he thinks, has taken … |
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Countdown
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Ben Mikaelsen |
In two parallel stories, a fourteen-year-old boy who is NASA's first Junior Astronaut and a fourteen-year-old Maasai herder in Kenya both edge into maturity while questioning their family traditions. |
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Hell's gate
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Richard Crompton |
Extorting money from displaced people, violence against women, what it means to be Kenyan in a society divided by tribal loyalties, wildlife poaching and where do you find justice in a system where b… |
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Warrior son of a warrior son
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Melinda Lilly |
A Masai folktale about how the tiny caterpillar outsmarts the other animals even though they are much bigger and stronger. |
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The lonely lioness and the Ostrich chicks
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Verna Aardema |
In this retelling of a Masai tale, a mongoose helps an ostrich get her chicks back from the lonely lioness who has stolen them. |
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Who's in Rabbit's house?
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Leo Dillon,Diane Dillon,Verna Aardema |
Rabbit has a problem - someone is inside her house and won't let her in. |
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The Maasai of East Africa
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Jamie Hetfield |
Describes the customs, traditions, food, clothes, and homes of the Maasai people, who live in the grasslands of eastern Africa. |
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Our secret, Siri Aang
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Cristina Kessler |
Namelok, a Masai girl, tries to persuade her traditionalist father to delay her initiation and marriage because they will restrict her freedom and keep her from the black rhino mother and baby she is… |
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Olbalbal
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Barbara A. Margolies |
Text and photographs describe life in a Masai village in Tanzania. |
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From Mukogodo to Maasai
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Lee Cronk |
Can one change one's ethnicity? Can an entire ethnic group change its ethnicity? This book focuses on the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. Until the 1920s and 1930s… |
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Papa do you love me?
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Barbara M. Joosse |
When a Masai father in Africa answers his son's questions, the boy learns that his father's love for him is unconditional. |
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The lion's tail
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Douglas F. Davis |
Given the gift of cattle by the gods, the Masai tribe must outwit the lions on the Serengeti Plain who also want the cattle. |
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The baboon king
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Anton Quintana |
Son of a Kikuyu mother and a Masai herdsman father, Morengáru the hunter lives on the edges of tribal society until an actual banishment forces him to make a life for himself among a troop of baboon… |
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Masai and I
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Virginia L. Kroll |
Linda, a little girl who lives in the city, learns about East Africa and the Masai in school, and imagines what her life might be like if she were Masai. |
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Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper!
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Tololwa M. Mollel |
A variety of animals try to help a hare get rid of the mysterious intruder who has taken over her house. |
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The Orphan Boy
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Tololwa M. Mollel |
Though delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boy's mysterious powers. |
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