Eleven-year-old Rabi thinks it would be wonderful to be like her classmate Maybelline – rich, pretty and popular with everyone in the school. As her school’s big event on television draws closer, Rabi realizes she has only one chance to be a star. Where will she shine best? Will it be if she follows in Maybelline’s dainty footsteps? Or will it be if she dares to run along as herself?

Award: Macmillan Writer’s Prize for Africa 2006.