Jamhuri, Njambi & Fighting Zombies - Snog Team Six, #1

GOLD MEDAL WINNER - 2019 E-Lit Book Awards Best Multicultural NovelSILVER MEDAL WINNER - 2018 Nautilus Awards Best YA NovelIn this intro/prequel to the Snog Team Six series, readers encounter 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. About the Author: Before becoming a writer, Ted Neill worked in Global Health and Education. These stories were inspired when Neill was volunteering and living at an orphanage for HIV+ children in Nairobi Kenya.
He wrote Jamhuri, Njambi, & Fighting Zombies when the children requested stories featuring people and places that reflected their own culture and their own world.