These traditional reads are brimming with spirited characters and positive values—but with a little extra excitement and bite, so hold on to your hats! Written expressly for the middle grade struggling reader, the series does not...
Africa
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Author:Hanson, Ed, Doman, Mary KateSummary: -
Author:Summary:We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of first generation African poets like Wole...
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Author:Kwarteng, KwasiSummary:The world was wild for gold. After discovering the Americas, and under pressure to defend their vast dominion, the Habsburgs of Spain promoted gold and silver exploration in the New World with ruthless urgency. But, the great influx of...
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Author:Bouchard, Jocelyne, Dupont-Champagne, ChristianeSummary:Avec ce roman, Christiane Dupont-Champagne transmet son amour pour l'Afrique et son peuple ; elle y décrit d'une façon remarquable les émotions d'une jeune fille qui doit suivre sa famille dans un pays qui lui est...
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Author:Couto, MiaSummary:Mwanito was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears. Mwanito has been living in a former big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an...
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Author:WILSON, John F.Summary: - Author:Summary:
Ces douze études ont été présentées par une équipe de chercheurs africains, nord-américains et européens réunis en 2012 à Vancouver. Elles soulèvent plusieurs dimensions du problème des traditions orales : l'oralité et les écrivaines...
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Author:Berrisford, Stephen, Kihato, Caroline Wanjiku, McGaffin, Rob, Napier, Mark, Royston, LaurenSummary:Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society's margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors...
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Author:Hacking, Lawrence, De Clercq, WilSummary:The Paris-Dakar Rally is without question the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet. Since its inception in 1979, it has attracted more than 3,000 adventurers from all walks of life. The men and women who...
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Author:Smith, RolandSummary:Determined, after his mother's accidental death, to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya.
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Author:Pirog, NickSummary:A collection of four Thomas Prescott books in a single volume. In Unforeseen, only retired cop Thomas Prescott knows that Tristan Grayer is alive and ready to kill again. In Gray Matter, Prescott sighted a corpse, and now someone is out...
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Author:Minot, SusanSummary:Tells the story of two extraordinary young women: Esther, a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to commit unspeakable acts, and Jane, an American journalist traveling in Africa, hoping to give a voice to...
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Author:Walters, EricSummary:Inspired by a story told to the author while on safari in 2015, The Wild Beast describes the creation of one of Africa's most unusual animals, the wildebeest. According to oral tradition, the Creator built this unique beast out of...
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The true story, in the form of a novel, of how under Major Alan Wilson, a small group of soldiers hold off thousands of African warriors, bringing to an end the Matabele War and the birth of Rhodesia.
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Author:Krotz, LarrySummary:The relationship between Westerners and Africa has long been conflicted and complicated. Frequently exploitative, it is also just as often propelled by an almost irresistible urge to ‘do good’. The persistence of this impulse is...
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The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that Jerry Haigh brings home in this fascinating...
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Author:Haigh, J. C.Summary:The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that Jerry Haigh brings home in this...
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A critical interrogation of the relationship between cultural practices and human rights in Africa rooted in Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work. Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tensions...
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Author:Lofting, HughSummary:The life of quiet bachelor Dr. Dolittle is turned upside down when Polynesia the parrot teaches him how to speak to animals, prompting him to shift his medical focus on the creatures he’s always adored. His veterinary practice takes him...
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Author:Martin MeredithSummary:
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