Mysteries of People and Places

The Skirt (McDougal Littell Library)

Shimmy

Omega Place

The Servant

The Bad Girl (New Fear Street, Book 4)

Hot and Spicy (The Chickabees)

The Lilac Tree

For thirteen-year-old Kim, travel to South Africa with her journalist mother will mark the end of her childhood and the beginning of a remarkable journey. Expecting nothing more than three months in her mothers homeland, Kim comes to terms with the countrys diverse and often shocking history. The Truth and Reconciliation Hearings in post-apartheid South Africa open her eyes to the tragedy and brutality of its segregationist policies. Kims first meeting with her relatives, her contact with schoolmates and cousins, bring her face-to-face with the realization that she is not as removed from this powerful story as she thought. As her mother struggles with her past, Kim becomes more and more determined to unlock the secret that has always kept her from knowing her father. Helped by the young son of a long-time family servant, whose own father was a casualty of Apartheid history, Kim eventually unlocks her mystery and brings her mother and herself to their own truth and reconciliation. Layered and complex, this is a novel that raises questions and challenges beliefs.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Social Justice

Adventure

Afrika

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Mysteries of People and Places

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Gary Soto, 1993

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Anne Cateaux, 2021

Omega Place

Graham Marks, 2007

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Fatima Sharafeddine, 2010

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Margaret P. Clark, 1998

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Helen-Dunmore, 2000