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1) Thirty girls
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The long-awaited novel from the best-selling, award-winning author of Evening is a literary tour de force set in war-torn Africa.
Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children...
Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children...
5) Broken pride
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When the lone rule of the African plains is violated, the task of keeping the fragile peace between predators and prey is left to a cast-out lion, an intuitive elephant, and an honor-seeking baboon.
6) The herd boy
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd and their two older siblings travel to Africa to track down priceless artifacts that will keep the family's treasure hunting business afloat long enough to rescue their kidnapped mother--and possibly find their missing father.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989, c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In an African country that has suffered revolution and civil war and that is headed by a man of almost insane energy and crudity, one restless, reflective, and isolated villager and his friends uneasily submit to the tide of events.
11) Blood ransom
Author
Series
Mission Hope series volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of Africa, two American lives are about to change forever. Natalie Sinclair and Dr. Chad Talcott want to make a difference in underdeveloped African villages ... but they didn't count on risking their lives in the process.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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
World War II novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
As the forces of Nazi Germany overrun the nations of Europe and America is drawn into the war by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American troops and their British allies launch a desperate campaign to stop Hitler.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In Khayelitsha, South Africa, Neo's passion for music leads her to her first love--Tale, the female lead singer of a local band--and an internship at the local radio station, and both experiences teach Neo about the risks and rewards of using her own voice to empower others.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street...
16) Galimoto
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Walking through his village, a young African boy finds the materials to make a special toy.
17) Wanda
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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.
20) Jungle drums
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tired of being teased, Ngiri, the smallest warthog in Africa, uses a set of magic drums to make wishes, but he is not careful enough and makes the rift between the Warthogs and the beautiful Other Beasts even worse.
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