Africa

  • A Bone From a Dry Sea   Peter Dickinson
  • A Chain of Fire (1992) (sequel to Journey to Jo'Burg) Naidoo, Beverly
  • A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
  • AK by Peter Dickinson (a child soldier story)
  • At Her Majesty's Request        Walter Dean Myers
  • Baboon King Quintana, Anton -
  • BEYOND THE MANGO TREE by Amy Browen Zemser
  • Bone Dry        Kathleen Karr
  • Buchi Emecheta.
  • Chain of Fire   Beverly Naidoo
  • Countdown Mikaelson, Ben-
  • Cry the Beloved Country Alan Paton
  • Day of Delight Schur, Maxine -
  • Elephant Tears:  Mask of the Elephant Trout, Richard
  • Facing the Lion : Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai-Lekuton
  • Fishing for Crocodiles by Peter Lawrence
  • Flyaway Girl    Ann Grifalconi
  • Girl Named Disaster     Nancy Farmer
  • Going Solo      Roald Dahl      *nonfiction
  • House of the Scorpion   Nancy Farmer
  • Jakarta Missing Jane Kurtz
  • Journey to Jo'Burg Beverley Naidoo
  • King Solomon
  • Many Stones     Carolyn Coman
  • McCall Smith's books about Botswana
  • Memories of Sun
  • Miriam's Song   Mark Mathabane
  • No Condition is Permanent Christina Kessler's
  • No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa (1998) Naidoo, Beverly-
  • Out of Bounds   Beverly Naidoo
  • Paper Bird      Maartens, Maretha
  • Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (? Egypt?)      Campbell Black
  • SABA: UNDER THE HYENA'S FOOT -- by Jane Kurtz -- Set during the reign of
  • So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
  • Somehow Tenderness Survives, a short story collection by Hazel Rochman
  • Song of Be      Lesley Beake
  • STORYTELLER'S BEADS by Jane Kurtz - Ethiopia in the 1980s, tells story of refugees fleeing the country
  • THE BABOON KING by Anton Quintan, translated by John Nieuwenhuizen (more challenging)
  • The Captive     Joyce Hansen
  • The Cinnamon Tree: A Novel Set in Africa        Aubrey Flegg
  • The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm   Nancy Farmer
  • The Exiles at Home      Hilary McKay
  • The little soldier by Bernard Ashley is about one of the child soldiers of Africa, though much of it is about how he adjusts to life in England.
  • The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers (The New Press, NY)
  • The Other Side of Darkness (2001) Naidoo, Beverly-
  • The Other Side of Truth, by Beverly Naidoo -- protagonist is an 8th grader.
  • The Return Levitin, Sonia-
  • The Secret Journey      Peg Kehret
  • The Storyteller
  • THE STORYTELLER'S BEADS, Jane Kurtz's SABA: UNDER THE HYENA'S FOOT (forthcoming), and MEMORIES OF SUN (forthcoming)
  • The Village of Waiting - unknown Peace Corps author
  • The Wind of Chance      Rene Guillot
  • The Wooden Ox Hardy, Leanne -
  • THE YEAR OF NO RAIN by Alice Mead (a "lost boy of Sudan" story)
  • Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe
  • Thunder Cave Smith, Roland -
  • Waiting for the Rain Gordon, Sheila-
  • When I left my village Schur, Maxine -
  • ZULU DOG by Anton Ferreira - very appropriate for eighth grade
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