Read the World: Ethiopia

Books by authors from Ethiopia or set in/about Ethiopia.

Updated February 4, 2024
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A thirst for home a story of water across the world
Ieronimo, Christine
Paper Book
Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though life is difficult, she dreams of someday knowing more about the world. When her mother has no choice but to leave her at an orphanage to give her a chance at...
The best beekeeper of Lalibela a tale from Africa
Kessler, Cristina.
Paper Book
Long ago in the mountains of Ethiopia, the bees arrived in Lalibela, and people poured in from all around to procure their sweet honey. A young girl named Almaz vows one day her honey will be the best of all. When she shares her dream with the current beekeepers, they laugh her away and tell her it...
Cutting for stone [sound recording]
Verghese, Abraham, 1955-
Audiobook
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel-an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa....
Escape under the forever sky /
Yohalem, Eve.
Paper Book
. . . should appeal to all with a sense of adventure. Publishers Weekly . . . an engrossing journey. Kirkus Reviews Teens itching to read about life on another continent will relish Yohalem s exciting debut novel. Booklist . . . this unusual adventure places a reassuringly typical...

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