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From the award-winning author of Small Mercies, named a Best Middle-Grade Book of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews
When Boipelo Seku learns about a man who traded his way from a paperclip to a house, he starts a trade of his own in his small village of Cedarville, South Africa, accidentally setting in motion a string of good deeds that will change his community forever.
The last installment of the top selling Fiery Spiral Trilogy.
In a dystopian future Cape Town, Teenager Ebba Den Eeden is desperate to restore ecological and social harmony to an Earth torn apart by the warring Gods Theia and her brother Prospiroh...
Pearl has always felt more comfortable in the sea than surrounded by the people in her sleepy South African town. But when a new friend from below the surface is taken by poachers, Pearl may need a little help after all.
Pearl of the Sea is an adventure exploring how we are both bound to and freed by nature, seen through the eyes of a tough teen-aged heroine.
Stories from the US and around the world
Flare Best Sellers
A Booklist Starred Review
A big-hearted coming-of-age debut about a tiger, a Russian, a model airplane, unexplainable disaster, and a bewildered twelve-year-old boy just trying to find his place in the world...
The sheer brutality of the crime scene was surprising. The features of the body resting in the road at the end of a trail of debris were erased by friction. Clothing and body parts left strewn along a gut wrenching path of blood. No skid marks. No calls to 911. No accident. This was murder.
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Nonfiction narratives of all types
Introducing Bait, the little toad with a big personality.
Bait the toad loves the camera, and the camera certainly loves him! From his river-bed roots to TikTok stardom, Bait has never found a pose he couldn’t slay, or a hat he couldn’t style.
In an irreverent but loving treatise on the creatures of South Africa and beyond, David Muirhead features eccentric animal behaviors in his native home. Mixing folklore and legend with a heavy dose of science...
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