Burn my heart / Beverley Naidoo.
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TextPublication details: New York : Amistad (HarperCollins), 2009.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 209 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0061432970
- 9780061432972
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Naidoo, Beverley | Available | 33111006217398 |
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What does it mean to be loyal?
Mathew and Mugo, two boys--one white, one black--share an uneasy friendship in Kenya in the 1950s. They're friends even though Mathew's dad owns the land and everything on it. They're friends despite the difference in their skin color. And they're friends in the face of the growing Mau Mau rebellion, which threatens British settlers with violence as black Kenyans struggle to win back their land and freedom. But suspicions and accusations are escalating, and an act of betrayal could change everything.
Internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Beverley Naidoo explores the fragile bonds of friendship in this stunning novel about prejudice, fear, and the circumstances that bring people together--and tear them apart.
First U.S. edition, HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.
Originally published in Great Britain by the Penguin Group, 2007.
Matthew and Mungo, boys with a different skin color and culture, have a friendship that is tested during the Mau Mau bid for national independence.