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• Originally published: London : Puffin Books, 2001.
• Seven stories, spanning the time period from 1948 to 2000, chronicle the experiences of young people from different races and ethnic groups as they try to cope with the restrictions placed on their lives by South Africa’s apartheid laws.
• The dare — The noose — One day, Lily, one day — The typewriter — The gun — The playground — Out of bounds — Timeline across Apartheid.

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• Africa, Sub-Saharan — History — 1884-1960.
• Africa, Sub-Saharan — History — 1960-
• Great Britain — Colonies — Africa.
• Africa, Sub-Saharan — Colonial influence.
• Hartley family.
• Hartley family. fast (OCoLC)fst00214409
• Africa. fast (OCoLC)fst01239509
• Africa, Sub-Saharan. fast (OCoLC)fst01239520
• Since 1884 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Returning to her native home in Somalia after being raised in North America and suffering a failed marriage, self-reliant Cambara struggles to reclaim her family’s home from a warlord and finds support from a group of women activists.
• A strong, modern woman who was born in Somalia but brought up in North America, Cambara returns to Mogadiscio to escape a failed marriage and an overweening mother. Her journey back to her native home is a desperate attempt to find herself on her own terms – however ironically, in a country where women must veil their faces. And she has given herself a mission: to reclaim her family’s home from the warlord who has taken it as his own. She has arrived laden with impossibly heavy suitcases that contain everything she wanted to bring from her past life into this new one. Cambara finds emotional refuge and practical support with a group of Somali women activists working to broker peace in a country that has been savagely riven by its drug-addled, power-hungry men. As she begins to build a sense of comfort and intimacy in this most dangerous of cities, some of her most unlikely ambitions begin to seem possible. –BOOK JACKET.

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• Americans — Somalia — Fiction.
• Mogadishu (Somalia) — Fiction.
• Real property — Somalia — Fiction.
• Americans. fast (OCoLC)fst00807488
• Real property. fast (OCoLC)fst01091096
• Somalia. fast (OCoLC)fst01205351
• Somalia — Mogadishu. fast (OCoLC)fst01206065
• Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787

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• An African father tells his son about the disaster that followed the night a baby with smallpox was abandoned in his family’s house.

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• Smallpox — Fiction.
• Family life — Fiction.
• Africa — Fiction.

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Part of the series A Penguin book;A Penguin book.
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• Reprinted by arrangement with Arcade Publishing Inc. –T.p. verso.
• A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians. By an English-speaking Somali writer, author of Secrets.

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• Orphans — Somalia — Fiction.
• Young men — Somalia — Fiction.
• Identity (Psychology) — Fiction.
• Somalia — Politics and government — Fiction.
• Bildungsromans. gsafd

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• Translation of: L’enfant noir.
• Originally published in 1954 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• [This book] is a … memoir of [the author's] youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. [He] marvels over his mother’s supernatural powers, his father’s distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than the autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. -Back cover.

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• Camara, Laye.
• Authors, Guinean — Biography.

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• Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011
• One of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two convey the best of African values while relating searing accounts of famine and war. There’s warmth as well, in their humorous tales of adapting to American life. For its importance as a primary source, for its inclusion of the rarely told female perspective of Sudan’s lost children, for its celebration of human resilience, this is the perfect story to inform and inspire young readers.

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• Dau, John Bul — Juvenile literature.
• Akech, Martha Arual — Juvenile literature.
• Refugees — Sudan — Biography — Juvenile literature.
• Sudan — History — Civil War, 1983-2005 — Juvenile literature.
• Dau, John Bul.
• Akech, Martha Arual.
• Refugees — Sudan — Biography.
• Sudan — History — Civil War, 1983-2005.

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• Originally published, in slightly different form, in 2010 by HarperCollins Publishers, Great Britain.
• Jama is a half-feral child scavenging in the streets of a great seaport. After his mother dies, Jama decides to search for his never-seen father. So begins Jama’s extraordinary journey of more than a thousand miles north all the way to Egypt.

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• Boys — Africa — Fiction.
• Voyages and travels — Fiction.
• Fathers and sons — Fiction.
• Africa — History — 20th century — Fiction.
• Africa. fast (OCoLC)fst01239509
• Africa — History — 20th century — Fiction. idszbzna
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• Historical fiction. gsafd
• Adventure fiction. gsafd
• Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• In this memoir adapted for young readers, William Kamkwamba describes the drought that struck his tiny village in Malawi, his subsequent interest in science, and his idea to build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William’s windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land.– (Source of description not identified)
• Middle School.
• Accelerated Reader 5.8
• 860 Lexile

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• Kamkwamba, William, 1987- — Juvenile literature.
• Mechanical engineers — Malawi — Biography — Juvenile literature.
• Inventors — Malawi — Biography — Juvenile literature.
• Windmills — Malawi — Juvenile literature.
• Electric power production — Malawi — Juvenile literature.
• Irrigation — Malawi — Juvenile literature.
• Kamkwamba, William, 1987-
• Mechanical engineers.
• Inventors — Malawi.
• Windmills — Malawi.
• Electric power production — Malawi.
• Irrigation — Malawi.
• Kamkwamba, William, 1987- fast (OCoLC)fst01914592
• Malawi. fast (OCoLC)fst01209421
• Biography. fast (OCoLC)fst01423686
• Juvenile works. fast (OCoLC)fst01411637

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• Two boys–one white, one black–share an uneasy friendship in Kenya in the 1950s, a country shaken by a rebellion of Africans against white landowners, but suspicions and accusations are escalating, and an act of betrayal could change everything.
• Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 5.2 6.
• Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010

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• Friendship — Juvenile fiction.
• Betrayal — Juvenile fiction.
• Revolutions — Juvenile fiction.
• Crimes against humanity — Juvenile fiction.
• Torture — Juvenile fiction.
• Kenya — Race relations — Juvenile fiction.
• Kenya — History — Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 — Juvenile fiction.
• Mau Mau — Fiction.
• Young adult fiction.
• Historical fiction. lcgft

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