The Kaya Girl

When Faiza, a Muslim migrant girl from northern Ghana, and Abena, a wealthy doctor’s daughter from the south, meet by chance in Accra’s largest market, where Faiza works as a porter or kaya girl, they strike up an unlikely and powerful friendship that transcends their social inequities and opens up new worlds to them both.

• Author: Mamle Wolo
• Hard Cover
• Pages: 336
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers