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“The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.” The New York Times “Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independencethe power of onecan prevail.” Cleveland Plain Dealer In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take...

Jamela is responsible for fattening up the chicken intended for Christmas dinner, but instead she gives it a name and makes it her friend.

Sarie struggles when she reads aloud in class in her South African school, but then she and her friend Auntie Anna find a book about Cinderella in Auntie Anna's old car and begin to read together.

You are a race car driver alone in Africa where the course is tough, hazardous, and risky, with unscrupulous competitors. Floods, elephants and local guerrillas are nothing compared to the drivers who will do anything to win. The race course you choose may spell the beginning or end of your career.

Jamela gets in trouble when she takes the expensive material intended for a new dress for Mama, parades it in the street, and allows it to become dirty and torn.

"A biracial girl living in post-apartheid South Africa is determined to unveil the mystery of her white mother's hidden past"--

Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.

Ryan Quinn and his best friend, Danny, stowaway on a plane to Africa in an attempt to save two revolutionary musicians whose identities have been compromised by a traitor within the Emegency Rescue Committee, while Ryan's parents, and ERC operatives, try to track the turncoat back in New York.

Heed the call of the wilddiscover the fourth book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling animal fantasy series from the author of Warriors! Set in the African savannah and told from three different animals points of view, Bravelands will thrill readers who love Spirit Animals and Wings of Fire, as well as the fans whove made Erin Hunter a #1 nationally bestselling phenomenon.A false leader has been destroyedbut Bravelands is still in grave...

As other animals walk, gallop or trot by, a hungry crocodile lies quietly in the sand, listening for a very special sound from her nesting place. Includes factual information about Nile crocodiles.