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1) 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
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.
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...
5) 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.
Author
Series
Fiery spiral volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
On the brink of execution, 16 year old Ebba den Eeden is unexpectedly elevated from the bunker deep in South Africa's Table Mountain where she has lived all her life, believing--as do all the other teenagers who toil daily to make their food and power the bunker--that the world "Above" is uninhabitable due to a nuclear holocaust. Instead, she is heiress to a massive fortune-one that everyone wants to control. While dealing with the machinations of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mercy lives in modern-day Pietermaritzburg, South Africa with her eccentric foster aunts-two elderly sisters so poor, they can only afford one lightbulb. A nasty housing developer is eying their house. And that same house suddenly starts falling apart-just as Aunt Flora starts falling apart. She's forgetting words, names, and even how to behave in public. Mercy tries to keep her head down at school so nobody notices her. But when a classmate frames...
Author
Series
Fiery spiral volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ebba den Eeden is dealing with all the typical teenage things: first boyfriends, mean girls, overbearing aunts - and, of course, navigating the political schemes of a murderous dictator, running a farm to feed an entire city, preventing the genocide of 2,000 teenagers trapped inside South Africa's famous Table Mountain, and saving the world from another apocalypse by reuniting four ancient amulets with the help of her ghostly ancestors....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"La vida a veces da rodeos para llevarnos adonde quiere. Rodeos llenos de emociones desconocidas, nuevas experiencias y encuentros mágicos... En un país lleno de desigualdades, la intrépida italiana Lulú, y Nelson, un sudafricano pleno de esperanza, se ven unidos en la misma lucha: la búsqueda de la libertad. En estas páginas encontraréis uno de los rodeos más bonitos de sus vidas..."--Amazon.com
"Life sometimes takes detours to take us where...
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