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Sahwira: An African Friendship

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By Carolyn Marsden; Philip Merlin Matzigkeit
Publisher Candlewick Press
Sahwira: An African Friendship
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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 churchs pastor twelveyearold Evan, a white American, lives on a Methodist mission in what is now Zimbabwe. Blessing attends the mission school for black Africans, while Evan goes to a whitesonly boys school in town. As Martin Luther King Jr. marches a world away, local headlines announce the murder of a white farmer by African independence fighters. Evans school friends immediately side with the whites, the headmaster turns them into cadets in training, and soon incendiary handbills are circulating. As tensions mount both on and off the mission, Evan is forced to choose. But how can he know how farreaching his choice will be?

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37489 words37,489 words
208 pages208 pages
Lexile 670LLexile 670L
Grade 6 to 9Grade 6 to 9
Age 11-14Age 11-14
Published 2009Published 2009

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