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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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An elephant hunter's chronicle of his safari into the interior of South Africa to search for a fabled diamond mine and to rescue the brother of the English gentleman who accompanies him across the deserts and mountains.
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English
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Marlow, the story's narrator, tells his friends of an experience in the British Congo where he once ran a river steamer for a trading company. He tells of the ivory traders' cruel exploitation of the natives there. Chief among these is a greedy and treacherous European named Kurtz, a man who has used savagery to obtain semi-divine power over the natives. While Marlow tries to get Kurtz back down the river, Kurtz tries to justify his actions and motions,...
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Akimbo series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Akimbo and his park ranger father unintentionally capture a lion cub near an African game park, Akimbo wants to keep the cub.
5) Swing time
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North-West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancersbut only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never...
8) Africa
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to Africa. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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Language
English
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Cartwright had been the office bully and a snoop for decades so few at the newspaper where he worked mourn him when he is found dead. But when colleague Owen Simmons discovers a dossier on Cartwright's desk containing a photograph, it brings Owen back to a dusty road in Africa and to the woman he once loved.
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Anansi books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.
12) Safari
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Language
English
Description
Introduces young wildlife enthusiasts to an array of creatures in their natural habitats on the African savannah.
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Series
Akimbo series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.
15) Private: gold
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for a routine job looking after a nervous tourist. After the apparent suicide of his business partner, he can't handle much more. But this case is not what it seems--and neither is his partner's death"--Amazon.com.
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Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd and their two older siblings travel to Africa to track down priceless artifacts that will keep the family's treasure hunting business afloat long enough to rescue their kidnapped mother--and possibly find their missing father"--
17) Beau Geste
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Language
English
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to...
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Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Swedish inspector Kurt Wallender investigates the murder of a woman whose body was stuffed in a well. The case has international ramifications, involving a plot against Nelson Mandela of South Africa.
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