Afrika is a novel about a girl named Kim who has to live in Southern Africa for a couple of months when her mother is doing an article about the apartheide which has ended but still has lasting effects in the country. While she's there she's shocked by the difference between South Africa and her home in Canada. Since this was the country her mother was raised in and Kim was born in, she begins to search for her father that she has never known. With the help of her new friend Themba, she discovers the truth about life in a country only recently free from the apartheide, the cruel relaties that took place during it, and the truth about why her mother took her to Canada away from her father.
-Pages: 240
-Age: 12 and up (some truthful facts on segregation that are for more mature people)
-Reader Type: realistic, informative, makes you look at your life in a more positive way
-Our Rating: This was an amazing book that wasn't action packed but had that way of drawing you into it so you can't put it down. It made us appreciate how wonderful where we live is and made us appreciate things that we had never thought to appreciate.
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