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Double Vision

A Hilo scheme


No. of pages 76

Published: 2003

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Great for age 12-18 years

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Set in South Africa, these two powerful and thought-provoking stories - "Mr Naidoo's Hundredth Birthday" and "Somone Else's Skin", are narrated by Basil, a Jewish white boy who contrasts the beauty of South Africa with the ugliness of a political system rooted in hatred. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.

 

. This book is part of a HiLo reading scheme, combining high interest relative to the required reading skill.

There are 76 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2003 by Barrington Stoke Ltd .

Norman Silver was born in Cape Town in 1946 and came to England to escape army training under the apartheid regime. His fiction has been translated into many languages has had many books published. No Tigers in Africa was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and won the Blue Cobra Award in 1990. He lives in Colchester.

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