Young adult fiction
Bafana Bafana
Bafana Bafana is not only a book about soccer; it is also a book about having dreams and chasing them. It is a book about making your own way in the...
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Call on the Wind
Call on the Wind tells the story of Isaak and Liesa, young people growing up in a small Griqua fishing village on the Tsitsikamma coast.
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Coconut
European Union Literary Award Winner 2006. Coconut is a story that deals with growing up as a black child in a white world. It is the story of black...
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Cornelia Button and the Globe of Gamagion
This beautifully crafted fantasy weaves between the real world of Bez Valley and the imaginary Kingdom of Gamagion. Besides telling an original and...
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Lucky Fish!
Lucky Fish! is a novel set in Johannesburg during the 1960s and is told by a 13-year old boy named Stephen. This account of Stephen's life during the...
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Rainmaker
Many young South Africans are facing a massive crisis of identity, but none so great as those in the ghettos. For them little has changed and Nelson...
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Sharp Sharp Zulu Dog
Vusi, an eleven-year-old Zulu boy growing up in poverty in rural South Africa, is enchanted by the helpless puppy he finds in the bush and adopts it...
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Spilt Milk
Decades after a childhood love affair earns upright school principal Mohumagadi and disgraced preacher Father Bill expulsion from their communities,...
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The Story of Lucky Simelane
This is the story of Lucky Simelane's search for his true identity. Lucky has been brought up in a small rural black community. But is he really...
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Zebra Crossings
Here are egte South African stories that flirt with legend and history, go to bed with world literature, and produce a golem elephant, a talking...
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