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Journey to Jo'burg


School year: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8

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No. of pages 80

Published: 1988

Great for age 7-13 years

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This short novel about two children travelling alone to Johannesburg in apartheid South Africa to find their mother was banned in that country when it was first published in 1985.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 10-13 years.

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published in 1988 by Perfection Learning .

ERIC VELASQUEZ is the author and illustrator of The Price of Freedom , Grandma's Records and Grandma's Gift , a Pura Belpre Award winner. He is also the illustrator of The Piano Man , for which he won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award. Beverley Naidoo is a South-African born writer and an educationalist. Apartheid prevented her and her Indian husband living in their country of birth, so they moved to Bournemouth, where Beverley is an Advisory Teacher for Cultural Diversity.