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Author: Tamsin Janu
Publisher: Scholastic
Genre: Children’s Fiction
Released: 01 June, 2014
ISBN: 9781742990453

Figgy in the World

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Synopsis

One is her name. Nobody in Ghana has that name. The other is that her grandmother is ill and needs special medicine. Figgy cant do much about her name, but she can do something for Grandma Ama. She will go to America and bring back the medicine, and Kwame, her special goat, will go with her. Out in the wide world she will meet some bad people, but she will also find good friends.

About the author

Tamsin Janu

Tamsin Janu was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. Until last year, she studied law and international and global studies at the University of Sydney, and now she works as a youth worker in a remote community in the Northern Territory Central Desert.