Age: South Africa

Materials from South Africa

Welcome To Zanzibar Road

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

After moving into the house on Zanzibar Road that her neighbors helped her build, Mama Jumbo decides to share it with Little Chico.

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Straw Sense

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Goolam-Habib, a young boy who is new to a village surrounded by strawberry fields and who doesn’t speak, befriends an old man making a straw-filled doll, and soon the old man helps the boy find himself.

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Jafta: The Homecoming

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A young black South African boy describes his feelings about his father’s return from working in the city.

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Armien’s Fishing Trip

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

While visiting his aunt and uncle in the little South African village of Kalk Bay, Armien stows away in his uncle’s fishing boat and becomes an unexpected hero.

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The Dove

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A visiting dove provides the answer to Grandmother Maloko’s financial problems when floodwaters destroy her crops and she must rely on the sale of her homemade jewelry.

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Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

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.

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Chain Of Fire

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

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.

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Somewhere in Africa

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Ashraf, a South African boy who lives in a big city, dreams of the African wild.

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