Beverley Naidoo

• Dec-1987
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• Sep-2001
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WILL THE TRUTH HARM THEM -- OR SAVE THEM? When Nigeria's corrupt military government kills their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her brother Femi think their lives are over. Out of fear for their safety, their father, an outspoken journalist, decid...

• Aug-2003
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Lindi and her brother go to the sea with their grandmother, taking a little wooden boat to play with that their grandfather has made. They quickly make a new friend and play together with the boat in the sea and then have a picnic. No one notices the...

• Aug-2006
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When Mmutla the hare tricks Tlou the elephant and Kubu the hippo into having an epic tug-of-war, the whole grassland is soon laughing at their foolishness. But big animals don’t like to be laughed at � -- especially by little animals. Soon King Li...

• Mar-2008
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“Has no equal. Evocative and haunting.” (School Library Journal starred review)The bestselling classic set in South Africa during the apartheid era, in which two siblings must face the dangers of their divided country.Mma lives and works in ...

• Jun-2008
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• Jun-2008
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A collection of short stories - four previously published and three new - linked by the theme of young people experiencing personal dilemmas. All are set in South Africa, first under apartheid and then after the first democratic elections. They cover...

• Apr-2010
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What does it mean to be loyal? Mathew and Mugo share an uneasy friendship in Kenya in the 1950s. They can look past the difference in their skin color, and the fact that Mathew's dad now owns the land they live on. And they're friends even in the ...

• Apr-2010
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Two years after their flight from Nigeria, 14-yr-old Sade, her younger brother Femi and her father are living in a council flat in London, waiting for their claim for asylum to be approved. Sade is upset when Femi is drawn into a violent possibly dru...

• Oct-2011
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A little mouse saves the life of a great lion; hungry Grasshopper, too lazy to store food, gets no mercy from the industrious ants; crafty Jackal tricks Klipspringer to escape death - but is himself tricked by the cock and the dog…. Here are 16 of ...

• Apr-2015
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A Children's Africana Book Awards Best Book 2016

All kinds of animals are featured in these ten sparkling stories from all over Africa, by an award-winning author and illustrator. Find out what happens to Lion when he challenge...

• Jul-2019
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Beautifully retold by the award-winning author Beverley Naidoo, this earliest-known version of Cinderella is brought to life for the modern day reader. Rhodopis is a Greek girl who is sold into slavery by bandits and taken to Egypt. Along the way she...

• Oct-2022
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A powerful novel by Carnegie Medal�"winning author Beverley Naidoo that is in turns heart-wrenching, infuriating, and inspiring -- and at its core, a call to readers to make a better world than they have found.Adam and his sister, Leila, are Nons --...

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Escaping from his violent stepfather, twelve-year-old Sipho heads for Johannesburg, where he has heard that gangs of children live on the streets. Surviving hunger and bitter-cold winter nights is hard'but learning when to trust in the ‘new' South...