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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Nine years after escaping the violence in Cameroon, Vanessa Michael Munroe, the daughter of American missionaries, agrees to help Houston oilman Richard Burbank find his adopted daughter, who vanished four years ago while visiting west central Africa.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Gordimer trains her keen eye on Steve and Jabulile, an interracial couple living in a newly, tentatively, free South Africa. . . There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in telling their story and the stories of their friends and families, Gordimer manages to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself post-apartheid."--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The whole of African history unfolds in this brilliant novel from one of the continent's major writers. The story is unified by the actions of one man, Mankunku, a "destroyer," who is born in mysterious circumstances in a banana plantation and whose identity is as variable as that of his land. This novel traces his development along with that of his unnamed country, from the precolonial era, through the horrors of European subjugation, to independence...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After working together to obtain honey, the African honey badger always shares it with his partner, the honeyguide bird, until one day when the honey badger becomes greedy and his feathered friend decides to teach him a lesson.
31) The whale caller
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charts a tender, funny romance between the "Whale Caller" in a small South African coastal town and the town drunk, Saluni.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 26
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rainforest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume no. 6
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stanley Lambchop travels to Africa with his brother, Arthur, and his father, George, in hopes of explaining his flatness through examination of a flat skull that has been discovered, and when they arrive, they find themselves on a safari adventure.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Corlie Roux's lives with her family on a farm in the harsh climate of South Africa, but after her father dies, Corlie is left with her mother, who is as cruel to her as she is kind to Corlie's brothers, and the British have begun their invasion to remove families like hers from the Transvaal and Corlie will come to rely on inner strength and an unexpected alliance with a Canadian soldier while she is stuck in an internment camp.
40) Sahara: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Dr. Rojas and Dirk Pitt are in Africa investigating different things, but are thrown together to save the world from environmental catastrophe.
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