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.

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

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