Entries from September 2006

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Journey to Jo’burg by Beverley Naidoo

Written in 1986 before the end of apartheid in South Africa, Journey to Jo’burg is the story of two children, 13 year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro, who set off from their village to find and tell their mother, working as a maid for a wealthy white family in Johannesburg, that their little sister, [...]

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

The Isabel Factor by Gayle Friesen

When her best friend, Zoe, breaks her arm, 15 year-old Anna finds herself going off to camp on her own for the first time ever. There she meets Isabel, a loner and misfit, who makes it clear that she has no time for pretense or lies, even those little white lies we tell one another [...]