Are you really a camel?” asked Aubergine. “Don’t be rude!” hushed her big sister. “It’s perfectly all right. People ask all the time,” said Lawrence gently. “But no, I am most definitely not a camel.” Charley was confused. Lawrence was covered in camel fur and had big camel eyes, long skinny legs, a big belly, and… “Notice the single hump on my back. That, along with a few less spectacular genetic markers, makes me undoubtedly a dromedary. Now, which one of you is eleven-year-old Charley?”
Charley is devastated when her mother disappears in the Zohar Desert. When their insurance agent, a dromedary named Larry appears at their door, Charley and her sister hop on his hump and fly away in a madcap quest filled with maze-like markets, belly dancing wars, genies and rock stars, a scorching desert and one very perturbed Sand Queen. When they do find their mom they discover that sometimes the greatest foe of all is yourself.
