Walking Home

About This Book

After post-election violence destroys their Kenyan village and takes their father, thirteen-year-old Muchoki and his little sister Jata set out from a refugee camp to walk hundreds of kilometers to their grandparents’ home. Eric Walters wrote the story after traveling the route himself in Kenya, and it shows in the vivid details of the savannah, the slums of Nairobi, and the kindness of strangers along the way. A moving survival story about courage, family, and hope that brings modern Kenya to life for middle-grade readers.