The lost history of stars /
Boling, Dave,
The lost history of stars / Dave Boling. - 475 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. - - Thorndike Press large print historical fiction . - Thorndike Press large print historical fiction. .
"A novel"--Cover.
In turn-of-the-century South Africa, fourteen-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken from their farm by British soldiers and are being held in a concentration camp. It is early in the Boer War, and Lettie's father, grandfather, and brother are off fighting the British as thousands of Afrikaner women and children are detained. The camps are cramped and disease ridden; the threat of illness and starvation are ever present. Determined to dictate their own fate, Lettie and her family give each other strength and hope as they fight to survive amid increasingly dire conditions. Brave and defiant, Lettie finds comfort in memories of stargazing with her grandfather, in her plan to be a writer, and in surprising new friendships that will both nourish and challenge her. Inspired by Dave Boling's grandfather's own experience as a soldier during the Boer War.
9781432843359 1432843354
2017027208
South African War, 1899-1902--Concentration camps--Fiction.
Concentration camp inmates--South Africa--Fiction.
Afrikaners--Social conditions--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Large type books.
The lost history of stars / Dave Boling. - 475 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. - - Thorndike Press large print historical fiction . - Thorndike Press large print historical fiction. .
"A novel"--Cover.
In turn-of-the-century South Africa, fourteen-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken from their farm by British soldiers and are being held in a concentration camp. It is early in the Boer War, and Lettie's father, grandfather, and brother are off fighting the British as thousands of Afrikaner women and children are detained. The camps are cramped and disease ridden; the threat of illness and starvation are ever present. Determined to dictate their own fate, Lettie and her family give each other strength and hope as they fight to survive amid increasingly dire conditions. Brave and defiant, Lettie finds comfort in memories of stargazing with her grandfather, in her plan to be a writer, and in surprising new friendships that will both nourish and challenge her. Inspired by Dave Boling's grandfather's own experience as a soldier during the Boer War.
9781432843359 1432843354
2017027208
South African War, 1899-1902--Concentration camps--Fiction.
Concentration camp inmates--South Africa--Fiction.
Afrikaners--Social conditions--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Large type books.