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Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 32
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The involvement in the Model United Nations, a nationwide school club, leads the reader into the heart of global decision-making. The reader is asked to make choices which will determine the course of an adventure involving civil war in Africa.
2) The herd boy
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
While doing a good job of caring for his grandfather's sheep and goat on the grasslands of South Africa, young Malusi dreams of everything from owning his own dog to becoming president one day.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 11
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa where they meet up with wonderful wild animals, a very hungry warrior, and where they even solve a riddle.
Author
Series
Akimbo series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.
Author
Series
Legend of the animal healer volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.
12) Halley's comet
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the final years of South Africa's Apartheid era, an unlikely trio-a sheltered white rugby player, a black farmworker's son, and an Indian shopkeeper's daughter-discover the consequences of knowing the truth and having the courage to speak it. Halley's Comet is the coming-of-age story of Pete de Lange, a white 16-year-old schoolboy, set in small-town South Africa in 1986. Pete lives a relatively sheltered life, primarily concerned with girls and...
14) Gumption!
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Peter goes on an African adventure with his beloved Uncle Nigel, who hopes to spot a rare gorilla, the oblivious Nigel urges Peter on by telling him to have gumption, while Peter keeps his eyes open and uses his ingenuity.
16) Kidogo
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Sure that he is the smallest creature on earth, a young elephant leaves home and journeys over woodlands, rivers, and plains searching for someone even smaller than he is.
19) A hippo's tale
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Deep in the middle of Africa, Mrs. Hippopotamus enjoys having quiet time all to herself, especially when bathing. But then a monkey shows up and disturbs her solitude. What is Mrs. Hippopotamus to do?
20) Goal!
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In a dangerous alley in a township in South Africa, the strength and unity which a group of young friends feel while playing soccer keep them safe when a gang of bullies arrives to cause trouble.
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