This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid.
Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid. Their journey illustrates at every turn the grim realities of apartheid - the pass laws, bantustans, racism, the breakdown of family life.
The opulence of the white "Madam's" house contrasts starkly with the reality that Naledi and Tiro face - that their baby sister is suffering from starvation, not an incurable disease.
| ISBN: | 9780008726478 |
| Publication date: | 10th April 2025 |
| Author: | Beverley Naidoo |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Children's Books an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | HarperCollins Children's Classics |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction PSHE: Siblings Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance Children’s / Teenage: Social topics: Poverty / precarity Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Multicultural Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism Stories about Family and Friends True Stories Work / Industry |