"Etabo wants nothing more than to race camels, but when times are tough and his chances disappear, he must be content with dreaming about racing them, until his sister makes a herd of wooden camels to help him imagine"--OCLC.
Riding a horse bareback has been done throughout history. But what about buffalo riding? Readers can see photographs of this strange race and many more. A colorful layout and fact boxes with additional details keep readers' attention as they race around the world on the back of a camel, through mud pits, and even dressed as Santa!.
After Azad is sold by his uncle to become a camel jockey, a role that frightens him, he is befriended by his camel, Asfur, and the two of them escape into the desert and find a new home with the Bedouin.
When her little brother is kidnapped and taken from Pakistan to race camels in the desert, eighteen-year-old Nadira overcomes her own past abuse and, dressed as a boy and armed with knowledge of the powerful storytelling of the legendary Scheherazade, is determined to find and rescue him.
