Journey to Jo’Burg
- Author Beverley Naidoo
- Narrator C. M. Smith
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Run Time 1 hour and 21 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Diversity and inclusion, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Multicultural, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Prejudice and intolerance, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism, Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics.
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Price p/Title
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What to expect
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.
This edition of Beverley Naidoo’s classic story includes a special “Why You’ll Love This Book” introduction by Michael Rosen, former Children’s Laureate.
Critics Review
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“ This story is compelling”
TES“inspirational tale…”
Network“Growing awareness of the sufferings of South Africa’s black children brings renewed point to Beverley Naidoo’s Journey to Joburg, a story for young readers, the more searing for its gentleness, that makes them ask questions we must learn to answer.”
Guardian
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