Benny ought to be having the time of his life; he has led his team to victory in the Primary Schools County Hurling Final, and Wexford has finally made it to the All-Ireland Hurling Final, but his father has been transferred to Tunisia with his company, EuroGas. So, instead of playing pickup games with his [...]
Young Kojo, who lives in a small village in Ghana, has had to quit school to help his widowed mother collect firewood to sell at the local market. The twenty families of Kojo’s village have agreed to save money so that each family in turn can borrow all of the savings to buy something important. [...]
In this final story of Allende’s trilogy, Nadia Santos and Alex Cold travel with his grandmother, Kate Cold, a writer for International Geographic, a photographer and a larger-than-life female pilot named Angie Ninderera into the heart of the African jungle at the behest of Brother Fernando, a Catholic missionary who is looking for two missionaries [...]
King Chinembira lies gravely ill, and his kingdom, whose fate is tied to the king’s health, is in the grips of serious drought and is threatened by uprisings. Mella has watched many healers try and fail to restore her father to health, and finally goes to the Rangarirai, a respected elder, to ask for [...]
