A Far Country

When drought and war threaten their land and her brother Isaias leaves their remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation to seek a better life in a southern city, fourteen-year-old Isabel, a young girl born with the gift of sight, follows him, only to find that he has vanished, and embarks on quest through the teeming and chaotic city to find him. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.