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Everyman's library volume 174
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men. This...
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English
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Activist, scholar, and political journalist Colin Legum assesses Africa's experience since independence and offers judicious predictions about the continent's future. Covering 50 years of sweeping change, this provocative and insightful book examines Africa's struggle for democracy, mounting economic problems, and AIDS.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo travels to Johannesburg on an errand for a friend and to visit his son, Absalom, only to learn Absalom has been accused of murdering white city engineer and social activist Arthur Jarvis and stands very little chance of receiving mercy
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Paul Theroux's best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled his epic overland voyage from Cairo to Cape Town, providing an insider's look at modern Africa. Now, with The Last Train to Zona Verde, he returns to discover how both he and Africa have changed in the ensuing years. Traveling alone, Theroux sets out from Cape Town, going north through South Africa, Namibia, then into Angola, encountering a world increasingly removed from tourists' itineraries...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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“West with the Night” is a memoir by British-born author, aviator, and equestrian, Beryl Markham. Friend and fellow author Ernest Hemingway once wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins asking: "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night?... bloody wonderful work." Markham was one of, if not the first, female bush pilots in Africa, and her memoir details adventures in Kenya with a unique perspective both from the ground and the sky.
Markham...
10) Africa
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the continent of Africa, its geographical features, people, and animals.
11) Galimoto
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Walking through his village, a young African boy finds the materials to make a special toy.
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English
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"Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence." -Entertainment Weekly (A)
The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country
As civil war rages in an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of...
13) Africa
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Describes the continent of Africa, including climate, landforms, plants, animals, countries, as well as Africa and the world"--Provided by publisher.
14) South Africa
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Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to South Africa, providing information on its history, geography, politics, religion, culture, social life, and people. Includes photographs.
15) The lower river
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English
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When he was a young man, Ellis Hock spent four of the best years of his life with the Peace Corps in Malawi. So when his wife of forty-two years leaves him, he decides to return to the village where he was stationed in search of the happiness he'd been missing since he left. But what he finds is not what he expected. The school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people.
They remember Ellis...
16) Africa
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Are you ready to explore? This continent has unique people, plants, animals, geographical features, and cultures. Take a fascinating tour of Africa to learn what makes it like no other place on Earth. You'll find well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Welcome to South Africa! Hear the sounds of 11 official languages. See lions and elephants on safari. Try new sports like cricket and rugby. Learn about the people, places, and traditions of this diverse African country.--Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After working together to obtain honey, the African honey badger always shares it with his partner, the honeyguide bird, until one day when the honey badger becomes greedy and his feathered friend decides to teach him a lesson. When greedy Badger decides to keep the honeycomb all to himself, instead of sharing it with Honeyguide bird, he is chased through the pond, over an anthill, and through a landscape of many exotic animals where something waits...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...
20) Africa
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Provides a brief overview of the geography, wildlife, history, and people of Africa.
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