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1) African Town
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
448 pages
Description
Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
Author
Series
Jamela books volume 5
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
It is summer vacation and Jamela is bored, until her Aunt Beauty asks her to come and help her get her hair salon ready for a special client, who turns out to be "Afro-Idols" contestant Miss Bambi Chaka Chaka.
5) Goal!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Description
In a dangerous alley in a township in South Africa, the strength and unity which a group of young friends feel while playing soccer keep them safe when a gang of bullies arrives to cause trouble.
7) Oathkeeper
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 6
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"With the balance of Bravelands at a breaking point, the Great Herd must risk everything to unite against their common enemy: the rogue lion, Titan"--
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
With the false leader destroyed, the animals of Bravelands are searching for the true Great Parent, but a mysterious new menace is threatening their lives.
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
304 pages.
Description
"The true Great Parent has finally risen and must unite all the animals of Bravelands to prevent an ancient evil from taking root"--
10) Halley's comet
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"In the final years of South Africa's Apartheid era, an unlikely trio--a sheltered white rugby player, a black farmworker's son, and an Indian shopkeeper's daughter--discover the consequences of knowing the truth and having the courage to speak it. Halley's Comet is the coming-of-age story of Pete de Lange, a white 16-year-old schoolboy, set in small-town South Africa in 1986. Pete lives a relatively sheltered life, primarily concerned with girls...
11) Gumption!
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
When Peter goes on an African adventure with his beloved Uncle Nigel, who hopes to spot a rare gorilla, the oblivious Nigel urges Peter on by telling him to have gumption, while Peter keeps his eyes open and uses his ingenuity.
12) Indigo dreaming
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Description
A young girl living on the coast of South Carolina dreams of her distant relatives on the shores of Africa and beyond. Indigo Dreaming is a poetic meditation between two young girls--on different sides of the sea--who wonder about how they are intricately linked by culture, even though they are separated by location. The girls' reflections come together, creating an imaginative and illuminating vision of home, as well as a celebration of the Black...
14) The young prince
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Description
T'Challa is training to inherit Wakanda, a technologically-advanced African kingdom ruled by his father, when he is unexpectedly sent to a Chicago public school with his best friend where he encounters an ancient evil that he must destroy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cassava Republic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
Description
It's a special day in Macy's classroom as all the children come in dressed up in their most stylish African clothing! Zahra's Ethiopian dress is covered in beads, while Malika's Namibian outfit is bursting with colors. And who is hiding behind that elephant mask from Cameroon? No two outfits are the same, in this beautiful and varied parade of clothing from across Africa!
16) Wanda
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, USA, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Eight-year-old Wanda is unhappy due to the endless mocking of her hair by the boys at school, but when Makhulu (grandmother) shares her grooming secrets and stories of beautiful women with locks just like Wanda, she realizes her hair is a crown and is something to be proud of.
17) Fly high, Lolo
Author
Series
Lolo volume 4
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Four new easy-to-read stories about the delightful and irrepressible Lolo and her daily life in a South African township. In Fly High, Lolo!, Lolo dreams of being an eagle in the school play, meets Miss Teen the Beauty Queen, goes on a beach clean-up with Mama and her new friend - and makes beautiful recycled Christmas decorations.
18) Broken pride
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 1
Formats
Description
When the lone rule of the African plains is violated, the task of keeping the fragile peace between predators and prey is left to a cast-out lion, an intuitive elephant, and an honor-seeking baboon.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 11
Publisher
Lectorum Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
70 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Wilhelmina Silver's world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey and her best friend, every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold and Will is sent away to boarding school in England, the world becomes impossibly difficult. For lions and hyenas are nothing compared to packs of schoolgirls.
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