“The sound of her brother’s scream echoed on and on in her head as though it would never end. “Let me go!” she demanded stupidly in English. The African boy dug his nails into Keri’s arm and brought the knife closer to her face.”
A dramatic adventure set during Mozambique’s civil war, The Wooden Ox follows young TCK Keri as the war becomes more and more real to her and her missionary family. Surrounded by fear and loss, Keri begins to question if she can trust anyone to protect her, even her own father or her God. Many of the events of this story are actually based on the author’s real childhood experiences from when she lived in Mozambique during civil war in the 1980s.
Reading level: 10-13 years