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The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Camel Bookmobile about?
The Camel Bookmobile follows an American librarian who travels to the arid bush of northeastern Kenya to give meaning to her life, but ultimately loses a piece of her heart. A compelling novel that shows how one life can change many, in spite of dangerous and seemingly immutable obstacles. When Fiona Sweeney tells her family she wants to do something that matters, they do not expect her to go to Africa to help start a traveling library. But that is where Fiona chooses to make her mark: in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya, among tiny, far-flung communities, nearly unknown and lacking roads and schools, where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. In The Camel Bookmobile, Fi travels to settlements where people have never held a book in their hands. Her goal is to help bring Dr. Seuss, Homer, Tom Sawyer, and Hemingway to a largely illiterate and semi-nomadic populace. However, because the donated books are limited in number and the settlements are many, the library initiates a tough fine: if anyone fails to return a book, the bookmobile will stop coming. Though her motives are good, Fi doesn't understand the people she seeks to help. Encumbered by her Western values,
Who reads The Camel Bookmobile?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Masha Hamilton
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061173493
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Adventure
- Rating
- 3.35 / 5 (1,663 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14