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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Fox Benwell delivers a harrowing and beautifully written novel that explores the relationship between two girls obsessed with music, the practice of corrective rape, and the risks and power of using your voice. Neo loves music, and all she ever wanted was a life sharing this passion, on the radio. When she meets Tale, the lead singer in a local South African band, their shared love of music grows. So does their love for each other. But not everyone...
2) The herd boy
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Malusi is a young shepherd boy who does a good job of caring for his grandfather's sheep. He gets up earlier to drive them to feed on good pasture looking out for all kinds of dangers such as coiled up snakes, eagles flying overhead and baboons who want to make a meal of the lambs. But Malusi also dreams of being President one day, a great leader. Many brave and wonderful leaders were shepherd boys in their youth learning how to protect and take...
Author
Series
Lolo volume 4
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"In Fly High, Lolo, Lolo gets an unexpected role in the school play, meets Miss Teen the Beauty Queen, goes on a beach clean-up with Mama's new friend, and makes beautiful recycled Christmas decorations"--
Author
Series
Jamela books volume 4
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Author
Series
Jamela books volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When Mama gets a new job and a new house, everyone is excited about moving except Jamela who likes her old house just fine.
6) Goal!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
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.
7) Rescue!
Author
Series
Bindi wildlife adventures volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
While horse-riding in South Africa, Bindi and Hannah discover a nature preserve for the giant sable antelope that's being used for illegal hunting at night, and when they try to help, they get caught spying.
Author
Series
Lolo volume 3
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
In these four easy-to-read stories, join Lolo as she makes homemade soup for her mom, grows a tomato plant, faces down a scary noise at night, and takes a vacation with some unexpected detours.
Author
Series
Lolo volume 2
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lolo skips through life - eager, merry and mischievous - leaving a trail of laughter and a few frowns.
10) Wanda
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Eight-year-old Wanda is unhappy due to the endless mocking of her hair by the boys at school, but when Makhulu (grandmother) shares her grooming secrets and stories of beautiful women with locks just like Wanda, she realizes her hair is a crown and is something to be proud of..
Author
Publisher
Putnam Publishing Group
Pub. Date
20140313.
Language
English
Description
Each time Hector watches white boys playing soccer in Johannesburg, South Africa, he dreams of playing on a real pitch one day and after the fall of apartheid, when he sees the 1996 African Cup of Nations team, he knows that his dream can come true.
12) Guardian
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associate Book
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Anglet Sutonga must clear the name of a friend falsely accused of murder while avoiding a deadly illness and a fanatical politician.
13) Wanda the brave
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Wanda visits the hair salon, but when Aunty Ada wants to straighten Wanda's hair instead of giving her the style she wants, Wanda and her new friend Nkiruka come up with a plan.
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The terrible thing that steals 14-year-old Mvelo's song leads to startling revelations and unexpected opportunities. Life wasn't always this hard for 14-year-old Mvelo. There were good times living with her mother and her mother's boyfriend. Now her mother is dying of AIDS and what happened to Mvelo is the elephant in the room, despite its growing presence in their small shack. In this Shakespeare-style comedy, the things that seem to be are only...
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A lot of things can feel just out of reach in 12-year-old Boipelo Seku's small, impoverished village of Cedarville, South Africa. The idea of one day living in a house that's big enough for his family is just a faraway dream. But when Boi stumbles on a story about a Canadian man who traded his way from a paperclip to a house, Boi hatches his own trading plan starting with a tiny clay cow he molded from river mud. Trade by trade, Boi and his best friend...
Author
Publisher
Rock the Boat
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Martin's life changes the day his dad is killed in a car accident. No one talks about it. His mum refuses to leave the house. His sister is only interested in her boyfriend. And Martin? He spends his afternoons alone with the family chickens - that's why they call him 'Clucky' - and at night, he solves difficult maths problems in his head to help him fall asleep. But one day Martin meets a boy called Vusi, who dreams of making a zombie movie. The...
17) Here comes Lolo
Author
Series
Lolo volume 1
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
These stories follow Lolo as she skips through life in a South African community. Lolo's everyday adventures will make her a favourite character for young readers everywhere. These easy-to-read, happy and humorous stories are illustrated on every page. They bring daily life in a South African community alive in all its richness and diversity. Lolo skips through life - eager, merry and mischievous - leaving behind a trail of laughter and a few frowns....
18) Small mercies
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
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
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. This one involves Amandla wearing a bedsheet loosely stitched as a dress. An outfit, her mother says, is certain to bring Amandla's father back home, as if he were the prince and this was the fairytale ending their family was destined for. But in truth, Amandla's father has long been gone--since before...
20) Pearl of the sea
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Pearl has always felt more comfortable in the sea than surrounded by the people in her sleepy South African town who always seem to let her down. But when a new friend from below the surface is taken by poachers, Pearl may need a little help after all. Since her mother left, Pearl has spent more and more time in the ocean, fishing to help her father pay the bills. But when she gets mixed up with a group of illegal abalone poachers and starts diving...
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