Readers will happily follow as she goes on a seaside vacation, helps plan a party for Auntie Comfort from Canada (will she remember her Nigerian ways?), learns firsthand what it's really like to be a child selling oranges outside the gate, and longs to see sweet snow. Anna is never lonely-there are always cousins to play and fight with, aunties and uncles laughing and shouting, and parents and grandparents close by. Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, amazing Africa, with her mother and father, her twin baby brothers (Double and Trouble), and lots of extended family in a big white house with a beautiful garden in a compound in a city. But more than anything else in the world, Anna Hibiscus would love to see snow.īook Synopsis From acclaimed Nigerian storyteller Atinuke, the first in a series of chapter books set in contemporary West Africa introduces a little girl who has enchanted young readers. She loves to splash in the sea with her cousins and have parties with her aunties. There is always somebody to laugh or play with. She lives with her whole family in a wonderful house. About the Book Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa.
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