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Author Lekuton, Joseph.
Title Facing the lion : growing up Maasai on the African savanna / by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton with Herman Viola.
Publisher Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2003.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
  Main floor books  967.62 LEKUT      CHECK SHELVES
  2nd Floor Young Adults  YA967.62 LEKUTON      CHECK SHELVES
  2nd Floor Young Adults  YA967.62 LEKUTON      CHECK SHELVES
Descript 127 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 22 cm.
Contents A lion hunt -- The proud one -- Cows -- The pinching man -- School -- Initiation -- Kabarak -- Soccer -- America -- A warrior in two worlds.
Summary A member of the Masai people describes his life as he grew up in a northern Kenya village, travelled to America to attend college, and became an elementary school teacher in Virginia.
Note DANBURY 6TH GRADE 2009
Subject Lekuton, Joseph -- Juvenile literature.
Masai (African people) -- Kenya -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Masai (African people) -- Kenya -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature.
Lekuton, Joseph.
Masai (African people) -- Biography.
Masai (African people) -- Kenya -- Social life and customs.
Blacks -- Kenya -- Biography.
Alt Author Viola, Herman J.
ISBN 0792251253
0792272978
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