Africa: Mozambique

A Girl Named Disaster

While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.

Descriptors: Africa, Fiction, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Mozambique

Secrets In The Fire

As a victim of a landmine and a child of war-torn Mozambique, Sophia turns to a village elder for advice and soon finds ways to cope with her difficult circumstances in order to grow into a person with great strength and determination.

Descriptors: Africa, Historical Fiction, Mozambique, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12)