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1) Eclipse
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American lawyer takes on the defense of an African freedom fighter, charged by his corrupt government with the murder of three oil workers.
4) Disgrace
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Fifty-two-year-old David Lurie, having lost his job and the respect of his friends and ex-wife after an affair with one of his students, retreats to his daughter's isolated small holding in South Africa where he attempts to relate to her and a society with new racial complexities.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
10) Rain
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The animals of the African savanna use their senses to predict and then enjoy the rain.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the family of a reluctant bank robber is victimized by a gangland assault, Benny Mongrel, an ex-con and night watchman, keeps quiet to avoid exposing his own troubled past but is drawn into the bank robber's backlash against a corrupt Afrikaner cop.
12) 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.
14) Half a life
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willie, the child of a brahmin father and low caste mother, moves to London as an adult where he is able to hide the circumstances of his birth but loses all sense of himself, a fact that becomes clear after he moves to Africa with his mixed-race lover.
16) The lower river
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixty-two-year-old Ellis Hock's family has abandoned him, he and hopes to rekindle his youthful happiness in Malawi where he taught school forty years earlier, but in Malawi he finds the old school in ruins and the people apathetic.
18) Thirteen hours
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Benny Griessel, a homicide detective in Cape Town, South Africa, has been sober for 156 days, but it begins to look like 157 might be his breaking point when an American teen is found with her throat cut, her friend Rachel goes missing, and a philandering music executive is shot dead.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
This classic story encompasses the life of John Clayton, the son of English aristocrats, who was abandoned in the jungle as an infant after the untimely death of his parents. He is adopted by the caring ape Kala and is raised in her tribe of gorillas lead by the intimidating Kerchak. Growing up an outsider among his peers, Tarzan gradually earns the respect of his ape tribe through physical feats and his hunting abilities. This sparks jealously in...
20) New old shoes
Author
Publisher
Pleasant St. Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A pair of red sneakers describes the journey from the store window, onto a young boy's feet, across the Atlantic to Africa, and then onto the feet of others.
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