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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park Publisher Comments From Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park, an emotional novel based on a true story. Nya goes to the pond to fetch water for her family. She walks eight hours every day. Salva walks away from his war-torn village. He is a “lost boy” refugee... (read more) Your price: $5.99 New - Trade Paper 
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Son of a Gun by Anne De Graaf Publisher Comments I was crazy. Crazy mad. That's how I felt when I turned in my AK-47 rifle. The commanding officer's growl still haunts me: This gun is your god. You listen to the voice of your god and go where your gun tells you. This powerful and gripping story... (read more) Your price: $8.00 New - Trade Paper
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Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan Publisher Comments Historical fiction with a wicked twist. Listening for Lions is a breathtaking story of tragedy, deception, and triumph against all odds. National Book Award–winning author Gloria Whelan sets this richly historical coming–of–age... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Heart Will Not Sit down by Mara Rockliff Publisher Comments When Kedi hears about America's Great Depression from her teacher, her heart will not sit down. Men and women are unable to find work. Children are going hungry. In her teacher's village of New York City, people are starving because they do not have... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You by Hanna Jansen Publisher Comments Jeanne and her family, who are Tutsis living in Rwanda during a time of civil war, flee their home in hopes of evading Hutu soldiers as political events threaten to overtake them.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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The African Mask by Janet E. Rupert Publisher Comments Twelve-year-old Layo has no thoughts of marriage. Her joy lies in making pottery, and she greatly admirers her grandmother's success in that art. When her parents demand that she leave her sleepy little village and visit the bustling city to meet her... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Broken Memory: A Novel of Rwanda by Elisabeth Combres Synopsis Hiding behind the old sofa, five-year-old Emma does not witness the murder of her mother, but she hears everything. And when the assassins finally leave, the young Tutsi girl somehow manages to stumble away from the scene, motivated only by the memory of... (read more) Your price: $8.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Storyteller's Beads by Jane Kurtz Publisher Comments Running for their lives to escape the political upheaval in Ethiopia, two young girls from different faiths form an unlikely friendship.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Good Fortune by Noni Carter Publisher Comments Brutally kidnapped from her small African village along with her mother and brother, Ayanna is sold into slavery in America and forced to work on a cotton plantation before risking everything to escape to freedom in the North, where she fights for an... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You by Hanna Jansen Publisher Comments Before one fateful April day, Jeanne lived the life of a typical Rwandan girl. She fought with her little sister, went to school, and teased her brother. Then, in one horrifying night, everything changed. Political troubles unleashed a torrent of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $11.98 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji Publisher Comments In Uganda in 1972 when President Idi Amin announces that he has received a dream from God and that Foreign Indians must be "weeded" out of Uganda in 90 days, twelve-year-old Sabine's life is changed forever. HONORS Governor General Awards finalist... (read more) List Price $6.36 Your price: $5.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo Publisher Comments Will the truth harm them -- or save them? When Nigeria's corrupt military government kills their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her brother Femi think their lives are over. Out of fear for their safety, their father, an outspoken journalist, decides to... (read more) Your price: $16.25 New - Library Bound
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Stones for My Father by Trilby Kent Publisher Comments Corlie Roux, an Africaner from the Transvaal, copes with many changes after her father dies, war breaks out with the British, and she and the mother who clearly prefers her brothers escape to the bush only to be sent to a concentration camp.... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sundiata: Lion King of Mali by David Wisniewski Publisher Comments In the thirteenth century, Sundiata overcame physical handicaps, social disgrace, and strong opposition to rule the West African trading empire of Mali.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sahwira: An African Friendship by Carolyn Marsden Publisher Comments Set in the volatile Rhodesia of the 1960s, this dramatic story, narrated from alternating viewpoints, tells of an interracial friendship tested. Like his best friend, Blessing — a Shona boy whose father is his church’s pastor — twelve... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan Publisher Comments Historical fiction with a wicked twist. Listening for Lions is a breathtaking story of tragedy, deception, and triumph against all odds. National Book Award-winning author Gloria Whelan sets this richly historical coming-of-age adventure in British East... (read more) Your price: $5.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Good Fortune by Noni Carter Publisher Comments Ayanna Bahati lives in a small African village when she is brutally kidnapped, along with her brother, and forced onto a slave ship to America. As Ayanna, renamed Anna, rises from the cotton fields to the master’s house, she finds the familial love... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unfortunate Son by Constance Leeds Publisher Comments Kidnapping, family secrets, and adventure on the high seas--perfect for middle grade fans of historical fiction! What does it mean to be lucky? Luc doesn't really know. He was born with just one ear, his father constantly berates him, and his younger... (read more) Available June 14, 2012 Your price: $16.99 New - Hardcover 
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Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan Publisher Comments Historical fiction with a wicked twist. Listening for Lions is a breathtaking story of tragedy, deception, and triumph against all odds. National Book Award-winning author Gloria Whelan sets this richly historical coming-of-age adventure in British East... (read more) Your price: $19.25 New - Library
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Ashanti Saga: The Fort by Alice R. O'grady Publisher Comments The riveting story of the Ashanti's fateful, final uprising of 1900 is the backdrop to Alice O'Grady's stirring tale of colliding cultures and clashing emotions, of oppression and discrimination, desire and brutality.-Harm de Blij, Professor of Geography... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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