LitPick Review
Fiona Sweeney wants to do something worthwhile with her life, so she volunteers to travel to Africa and run a bookmobile. She favors one community in particular, Mididima. But many people in Mididima resent this "white woman" and the bookmobile in fear their children will forget tradition. When some of the books borrowed from the bookmobile by a Mididima boy are not returned, Fi is ordered to discontinue her visits to Mididima. She is determined to find the books and continue her work there.
Opinion:
The book was written in third person perspective and it switches between many characters' points of view. I was really hoping someone would fall in love, and actually there is a lot of falling in and out of love. At times it is heart wrenching and at times it is heart warming. Something that really surprised my was that there really is a camel bookmobile in Kenya and in the back of the book is an address you can send donations to. The book had some hard vocabulary and the characters were hard for me to relate with at times. But overall, I think it is a pretty good book that will open your eyes to how poverty-stricken and un-educated these people are.
