GOLD MEDAL WINNER E-Lit Awards Best Multicultural Book - 2019

SILVER MEDAL WINNER Nautilus Awards Best YA Book - 2018

BRONZE MEDAL WINNER Readers' Favorite YA Adventure - 2019

DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE - Independent Press Award - 2019

FIVE STAR REVIEW from Readers' Favorite - 2019

FINALIST - SILVER FALCHION AWARD 2019

A Delight for Young Readers and the Young at Heart. A princess trapped in a high tree and a brash young man determined to “rescue” her; a devoted daughter searching for a magical spring to save her ailing father; a teenage girl who is forced to replace her mobile phone with a machete to protect her family from zombies—all their stories interweave in a stirring alchemy set in a rich African backdrop. Ted Neill moves readers from folktale to action, comedy to cosmology, rural to urban, material to spiritual, with the ease of a master storyteller, crafting an adventure along the way that will appeal to the head, the heart, and the soul.