the year is 2194 and 10 dry his brother and his sister the children and Zimbabwe chief of security have escaped from their father's day to explore the dangerous city of her. desperately wanting to prove himself to his father tender and barks with his siblings on a dangerous voyage through the Zimbabwe of the future. Nancy Farmers imaginative Odyssey inspires by Shawna mythology crackles were spense and adventure. about the author Nancy farmer won the 2002 National book award for the house of the scorpion. she is also the author of do you know me the warm place and a girl named disaster which also received a new very honor so miss farmer lived in Zimbabwe and Mozambique for many years she now lives with her family in California.