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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
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Series
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
A modern classic from the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body
The groundbreaking first novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga's award-winning trilogy, Nervous Conditions, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been "hailed as one of the 20th century's most significant works of African literature" (The New York Times). Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old
5) Diamond boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Set against the backdrop of Zimbabwe's brutal recent history, Diamond Boy is the story of a young man who succumbs to greed but finds his way out through a transformative journey to South Africa in search of his missing sister, in search of freedom, and in search of himself.
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Legend of the animal healer volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A third prophecy, this time involving a leopard, comes true for eleven-year-old Martine, an orphaned South African girl who has mystical healing powers over animals, when she travels with her grandmother and best friend Ben to Zimbabwe.
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Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money. After facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope.
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Series
Legend of the animal healer volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fourth prophecy, this time involving elephants, comes true for eleven-year-old Martine, an orphaned South African girl with mystical healing powers over animals, when she and her grandmother are faced with losing the Sawubona Game Reserve forever.
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Series
Dominic Grey novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The bizarre murder of a Satanic priest in San Francisco draws Dominic Grey and Viktor Radek, private investigators of cults, to the scene. Witnesses claim a robed figure, seemingly able to appear and disappear at will, set fire to the priest. When the leader of another Satanic cult in Paris dies under similar circumstances, the case only grows stranger... and more dangerous.
10) Minute zero
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Series
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English
Description
Fresh off the harrowing events of The Golden Hour, State Department crisis manager Judd Ryker is suddenly thrown into a quickly developing emergency in Zimbabwe, where a longtime strongman is being challenged for the presidency. Rumors are flying furiously: armed gangs, military crackdowns, shady outside money pouring in, and, most disturbing for the United States, reports of highly enriched uranium leaking into the market. And that's all before Ryker...
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Language
English
Description
Reeling from the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Mati's family leaves England to visit their native Zimbabwe, where Mati finds comfort in Meticais, a gender-neutral spirit or ghost who only she can see, and who helps her navigate her mercurial interpersonal relationships and feelings of grief.
"Mati's family is reeling from the death of Mati's mother. Her Baba has drawn into himself, her sister Chichi is rebelling, and her young brother Tana...
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English
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For fifteen-year-old Shamiso, hope is nothing but a leap into darkness. Grief-stricken and confused after her father's mysterious death in a car crash, Shamiso moves with her mother from England to Zimbabwe in order to pick up the pieces-returning to an extended family and a world she hardly remembers. For Tanyaradzwa, a classmate whose life has been turned upside down by a cancer diagnosis, hope is the only reason to keep fighting. As an unexpected...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe written on the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard of -- so she chose it. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen pal letter. There were only ten letters, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got...
18) Men of men
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Series
Language
English
Description
A novel which follows the romances and adventures of Robyn Ballantyne and her brother in the dangerous times during which Cecil Rhodes was establishing his diamond empire in Africa.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
"Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs. Khumalo's salon, and she is secure in her status until the handsome, smooth-talking Dumisani shows up one day for work. Despite her resistance, the two become friends, and eventually, Vimbai becomes Dumisani's landlady. He is as charming as he is deft with the scissors, and Vimbai finds that he means more and more to her. Yet, by novel's end, the pair's deepening friendship - used or embraced by Dumisani and...
20) Gugu's house
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kukamba loves helping her grandmother decorate her mud home in a dusty Zimbabwe village, but when the annual rains partially destroy all her art work, Kukamba learns to see the goodness of the rains.
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