The release date for the English version of 'Daja's Book' by
Tamora Pierce is Jun 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This is a different cover version.
Trader Daja, an outcast, travels from Winding Circle to the Gold Ridge Mountains with her fellow mages-in-training, where a drought poses a danger of widespread starvation. Daja makes an incredible creation there: a living metal vine, and her interactions with her previous people make her yearn for the traditions of the past again.
Daja has to make a decision: should she stay with the people of Winding Circle, who have become her family, or go back to the Traders?