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Sahwira: An African Friendship

Book Description
Set in the volatile Rhodesia of the 1960s, this dramatic story, narrated from alternating viewpoints, tells of an interracial friendship tested.

Like his best friend, Blessing - a Shona boy whose father is his church's pastor - twelve-year-old Evan, a white American, lives on a Methodist mission in what is now Zimbabwe. Blessing attends the mission school for black Africans, while Ev... More
Book Information
PublisherCandlewick Press
BindingHardcover (2 editions)
Reading LevelAges 9-12
# of Pages208
ISBN-10B005HKSL90
Publication Date04/14/2009
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About Carolyn Marsden (Author) : I write multicultural middle grade fiction for Candlewick and Viking. Although I’m white, my protagonists are Thai, Vietnamese, Mexican, Native American, Chinese, Italian,and even from Rhodesia, now... more
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About Phillip Matzigkeit (Author) : Phillip Matzigkeit is a published author of children's books. A published credit of Phillip Matzigkeit is Sahwira: An African Friendship.
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