"Dada" people like Zahrah freak them out, and they do not dare travel beyond the border of their kingdom, and definitely not into to the Forbidden Greeny Jungle. Despite Ooni Kingdom being very forward thinking in terms of technology, its people are very backwards and fear the unknown. Zahrah has a floral laptop, which she grows. Ooni Kingdom is pretty awesome - here technology and nature work as one. He's also the opposite of Zahrah - adventurous, inquisitive and brave. Her best (and only) friend, 15 year-old Dari, is the only one that sees through that and sees her for her. She has dadalocks (vines intertwind with her hair), is feared by others because of that and has been teased and treated as an outsider for as long as she can remember because she is different. Zahrah is a shy, introverted 13 year-old girl who lives in Ooni Kingdom on Planet Ginen, which is far far away from Earth. That was the age when I was introduced to The Hobbit, His Dark Materials Trilogy, and read the first two Harry Potter novels in less than a week. So I know I would have been in literary heaven if I got this book at that age. I fell in love with fantasy/sci-fi novels, but especially fantasy novels when I was 13/14. All I kept on thinking when reading this book was how I wish this was around when I was 13.
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