Avoiding her mother’s efforts to braid and bead her hair, a young girl imagines herself running away to a jungle.
Racing through her house to avoid having her hair braided, a young girl relies on her imagination to help her escape the threat of being tamed as she becomes a Wild Waiyuuzee.
The Wild Waiyuuzee wants anything but to be caught and tamed! If Shemama splashes her with water, rubs nut-nut oil on her head, and combs her with a piney pig’s tail, she simply won’t be a Wild Waiyuuzee anymore.
“William-Garvia adds lots of good sound effects, splashed across the pages in electric color by Reed.” – Kirkus Reviews
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Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor-winning novel, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. The sequel, P.S. Be Eleven, was also a Coretta Scott King Award winner and an ALA Notable Children's Book for Middl
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