Out of bounds : seven stories of conflict and hope / Beverley Naidoo.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins, 2003.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: xv, 175 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0060507993
- 0060508000 (lib. bdg.)
- [Fic] 21
- PZ7.N1384 Ou 2003
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | Naidoo, Beverley | Available | 33111003851561 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
We are the young people,
We will not be broken!
We demand freedom
And say
"Away with slavery
In our land of Africa!"
For almost fifty years apartheid forced the young people of South Africa to live apart as Blacks, Whites, Indians, and "Coloreds." This unique and dramatic collection of stories -- by native South African and Carnegie Medalist Beverley Naidoo -- is about young people's choices in a beautiful country made ugly by injustice.
Each story is set in a different decade during the last half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, and features fictional characters caught up in very real events. Included is a Timeline Across Apartheid, which recounts some of the restrictive laws passed during this era, the events leading up to South Africa's first free democratic elections, and the establishment of a new "rainbow government" that leads the country today.
A Junior Library Guild SelectionThe dare -- The noose -- One day, Lily, one day -- The typewriter -- The gun -- The playground -- Out of bounds -- Timeline across apartheid.
Seven stories, spanning the time period from 1948 to 2000, chronicle the experiences of young people from different races and ethnic groups as they try to cope with the restrictions placed on their lives by South Africa's apartheid laws.