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Author
Publisher
Accord Books/Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Reeling from the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Mati's family leaves England to visit their native Zimbabwe, where Mati finds comfort in Meticais, a gender-neutral spirit or ghost who only she can see, and who helps her navigate her mercurial interpersonal relationships and feelings of grief.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In the chronic turmoil of modern Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo's teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing, and the Mlambos fear the worst. Their enigmatic lodger, Zamani, seems too helpful in the search, ingratiating himself into their lives, knowing that the one who controls the narrative inherits the future."--Worldcat.org.
5) Martha Quest
Author
Series
Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood.
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.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A powerful novel about five young people, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together, from the internationally bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people have cobbled together a home for themselves in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumult. At seventeen, Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise: the group's...
9) Every breath
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A chance encounter in 1990 becomes a transcendent turning point for two very different people, including the conflicted surgeon daughter of an ALS patient and a Sunset Beach newcomer from Zimbabwe who aims to meet his birth father. Spanning two decades, Sparks transports readers to the bush of Zimbabwe and the Carolina coast.
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