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Title Harmattan / Gavin Weston.
Author Weston, Gavin, author.
Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Myrmidon, 2013.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Library Central  FIC WES    Check Shelves
Description 392 p. ; 20 cm.
Summary Harmattan (n. A dry, dusty wind that blows from the Sahara- probably from the Arabic haram, a forbidden or accursed thing). Haoua is a young girl growing up in a remote village in the Republic of Niger. Spirited, independent and intelligent, she has benefited from a stable home life but everything she has known is starting to change.
Subject Girls -- Niger -- Fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
Families -- Niger -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Niger -- Fiction.
Niger -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Niger -- Politics and government -- Fiction.
Genre Domestic fiction.
ISBN 9781905802753 (pbk.) : $13.95
1905802757 (pbk.)