| Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope Contributor(s): Naidoo, Beverley (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060508019 ISBN-13: 9780060508012 Publisher: HarperCollins OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: This unique 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 20th century and into the 21st, and features fictional characters caught up in very real events in South Africa. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - Africa - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Violence - Juvenile Fiction | Short Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 750 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.76" W x 7.66" (0.31 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Southern Africa - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 65079 Reading Level: 5.4 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We are the young people, We will not be broken 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 turbulent years from 1948 to 2000, and portrays powerful fictional characters who are caught up in very real and often disturbing events. |
Contributor Bio(s): Naidoo, Beverley: - Beverley Naidoo grew up in South Africa under apartheid. She says: "As a white child I didn't question the terrible injustices until I was a student. I decided then that unless I joined the resistance, I was part of the problem." Beverley Naidoo was detained without trial when she was twenty-one and later went into exile in Britain, where she has since lived. Her first children's book, Journey to Jo'burg, was banned in South Africa until 1991, but it was an eye-opener for thousands of readers worldwide. Her characters in Chain of Fire, No Turning Back, and Out of Bounds face extraordinary challenges in a society she describes as "more dangerous than any fantasy." She has won many awards for her writing, including the Carnegie Medal, the Jane Addams Book Award, and the American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults for The Other Side of Truth, about two refugee children smuggled to London who are also featured in Web of Lies. |