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Graber, Janet.
MUKTAR AND THE CAMELS
New York : H. Holt, 2009
IL K-3
ISBN 0805078347
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 Muktar used to live in Somalia.  His parents have died and he is now living in an orphanage in Kenya.  He remembers the stories his father told of the camels.  He thought that camels were a treasure.  When a librarian shows up at the orphanage with three camels, Muktar helps unload the books.  But he notices something about the camels, too.use.  Things are getting a bit crowded.  Can this get any stranger?
SUBJECTS:     Orphans -- Fiction.
                        Refugees -- Fiction.
                        Camels -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.
                        Somalis -- Kenya -- Fiction.
                        Kenya -- Fiction.

 
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