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.

Related: Africa, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), South Africa

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• ISBN: 9780064402378
• Author: Naidoo, Beverley
• Illustrator: Velasquez, Eric
• Published: 1988
• Themes: Apartheid
• Descriptors: Africa, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), South Africa