Theme: Apartheid

Waiting For The Rain (Laurel Leaf Books)

By Book Importer | Published: May 3, 2011

Tengo is the 10-year-old son of workers on Oom Koos’s large farm in the Transvaal. He longs to go to school like his friend Frikkie, who visits his uncle’s farm on holidays. But Tengo’s family is too poor to pay for the education that comes free to whites. He finally gets his wish at age [...]

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Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

By Book Importer | Published: February 8, 2010

Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, offers a glimpse into the mind of a great leader, admired across the globe for his dedication to the struggles against apartheid in South Africa. Now the youngest readers can discover the remarkable story of Mandela’s long walk from ordinary village boy, to his dynamic leadership of the [...]

Descriptors: Africa, Biography, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), South Africa » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Year the Gypsies Came

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Set in apartheid 1960s South Africa, twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains that her mother and father have always been eager to take in travelers and vagabonds, relying on the presence of outsiders to ease the tension between them. Emily has her gentle older sister, Sarah, and Buza, the old Zulu nightwatchman, for company and comfort. But her [...]

Descriptors: Historical Fiction, South Africa, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Afrika

By auraenid | Published: December 1, 2008

For thirteen-year-old Kim, travel to South Africa with her journalist mother will mark the end of her childhood and the beginning of a remarkable journey. Expecting nothing more than three months in her mother’s homeland, Kim comes to terms with the country’s diverse and often shocking history. The Truth and Reconciliation Hearings in post-apartheid South [...]

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Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

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 [...]

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The Acorn Eaters

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

An award-winning story by a Dutch author is set in the peasant country of Andalusia after the Spanish Civil War, when a poor youth struggles to help feed his family under the gun of the landowners.

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Little Oh

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

A mother tells her son the story of Little Oh, a girl made of paper who becomes separated from her human mother.

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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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