by ValerieBloom (Author)
Maruka is different to the other girls; she likes to hunt and fish deep in the forest, even though it's dangerous. But she should have stayed in the village the day the Kalinas tribe came and stole her mother. She would have stopped them.
Two years later, Maruka sees giant white sails rearing up on the horizon. She is sure of a Kalinas attack but a deadlier enemy wades ashore and plants a flag on the beach. Her tribe welcome the pale-skinned men but are repaid with treachery and forced to mine the white man's God - gold. Maruka knows that the tribes have one option: they must put aside their differences and defeat their common enemy. And if the tribes unite, Maruka might even find her mother again . . .
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 04 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 0330456423
ISBN 13: 9780330456425
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years