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• Title:Children of the quicksands / Efua Traoré.
  
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• Author/Creator:Traoré, Efua, author.
  
• Published/Created:Frome, Somerset : Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., 2022.
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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PZ7.1.T726 Ch 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Teenage girls--Juvenile fiction.
  Family secrets--Juvenile fiction.
  Imaginary places--Juvenile fiction.
  Quicksand--Juvenile fiction.
  Nigeria--Juvenile fiction.
  
• Subject(s): Secrets--Fiction.
  Fantasy.
  Nigeria--Fiction.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:285 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:Disobeying her witch-like grandmother when she becomes desperate to uncover a family secret, thirteen-year-old Simi goes exploring outside her remote Nigerian village where she discovers a strange parallel world after sinking into the red quicksand of a forbidden lake that holds the key to everything.
  
• Biography/history note:Efua Traoré is a Nigerian-German story writer. She won the regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018 and was nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2022.
  
• ISBN:9781338781922 hardcover
  1338781928 hardcover