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Author
Series
Jamela books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Jamela is responsible for fattening up the chicken intended for Christmas dinner, but instead she gives it a name and makes it her friend.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Frances has been forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Southern Cape of Africa. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men, one driven by ambition, the other by his ideals. Only when the rumor of a smallpox epidemic takes her into the dark heart of the diamond mines does she see her path to happiness.
Author
Series
Jamela books volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Jamela gets in trouble when she takes the expensive material intended for a new dress for Mama, parades it in the street, and allows it to become dirty and torn.
7) 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
Jamela books volume 3
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.
10) Zulu dog
Author
Language
English
Description
In post-apartheid South Africa, a Zulu boy keeps secrets from his family as he cares for an injured dog and befriends the daughter of a white farmer.
13) Imani's moon
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Little Imani of the Maasai people longs to do something great, like touching the moon, but the other children just laugh at her.
18) Zoo city
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things. Being hired by famously reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum of the criminal underclass. Set in a re-imagined Johannesburg, the author mixes refugees, crime, the music industry, African magic and the nature of sin together.
20) Rain
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The animals of the African savanna use their senses to predict and then enjoy the rain.
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