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Search Results for: Naidoo, Beverley
Burn My Heart
What does it mean to be loyal? Mathew and Mugo, two boys—one white, one black—share an uneasy friendship in Kenya in the 1950s. They’re friends even though Mathew’s dad owns the land and everything on it. They’re friends despite the difference in their skin color. And they’re friends in the face of the growing Mau [...]
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Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope
We are the young people, We will not be broken! For almost fifty years, apartheid forced the young people of South Africa to live apart as Blacks, Whites, Indians, and “Coloreds.” This unique and dramatic collection of stories—by native South African and Carnegie Medalist Beverley Naidoo—is about young people’s choices in a beautiful country made [...]
Posted in Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Realistic Fiction, South Africa Tagged Apartheid, Conflict, injustice, race relation, segregation, social condition Leave a comment
The Other Side Of Truth
Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother’s murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of what may have happened to their journalist father back home.
Posted in Africa, Fiction, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Nigeria Tagged conspiracy, journalist, Murder Leave a comment
Web Of Lies
Giving in to pressure to join a violent gang in London, twelve-year-old Femi is caught acting as a drug courier and confesses to the police, endangering his family’s request for asylum when Femi’s gang attempts to kill his family in retaliation.
Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story
When their baby sister becomes dangerously ill, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother make a journey of over 300 kilometers from their village to Johannesburg, where their mother works as a maid for a white family.
Chain Of Fire
When the villagers of Bophelong are forced to leave their homes, Naledi and her younger brother join in a school demonstration and learn that the South African government treats even children who dissent with brutality. Sequel to Journey to Jo’burg.
Posted in Africa, Fiction, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), South Africa Tagged Apartheid, protest, relocation 1 Comment
Making It Home: Real-Life Stories From Children Forced To Flee
Children from around the world share their personal experiences with war and other forms of conflict that have shattered their homes and families, in a powerful volume that shows readers what it’s like to be a refugee.
Posted in Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Nonfiction Tagged Ethnic relations, Holocaust, Jews in Lithuania, Persecution of Jews, Personal narrative Comments closed
On October 20, 2010 at 7:00 P.M., Rosemary Wells, illustrator and author of the preschool series Max and Ruby, will be at Worlds of Words physical location on the 4th floor of the College of Education at the University of Arizona.
Burn My Heart