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Books published by publisher Techmate Publishers Ltd. and Worldreader

  • Kisiwa chenye hazina

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    eBook (Longhorn Publishers and Worldreader, Feb. 20, 2017)
    Kisiwa chenye hazina ni kitabu usichoweza kukiweka chini hadi umeisoma hadithi nzima. Bila shaka kitawasisimua wasomaji wenye umri mdogo na mkubwa pia kwa jinsi kilivyotungwa kwa ufundi mkubwa.
  • Manywele

    Samuel Mulokwa Masawi

    language (Longhorn Publishers and Worldreader, Feb. 20, 2017)
    Hadithi hii, ilioandikwa katika mtindo wa hekaya, inasimulia kinagaubaga maovu ya uhasama wa ukabila. Kitabu hiki, chenye kuchangamsha na vibonzo maridadi, kinamchukua msomaji hadi mkoa mwa magharibi wa Kenya. Msomaji hachelewi kupata ujumbe uliomo.
  • The President’s Son

    Kwasi Koranteng, Worldreader

    eBook (Winmat Publishers Ltd and Worldreader, Dec. 7, 2017)
    The two rogues would like to reap where they have not sown. Will Tabi be able to impersonate the President’s son successfully? Will the sugarcoated words and grabbing hands be enough to get them to the land of milk and honey?
  • Jeevanjee: Rebel of the Empire

    Zarina Patel

    language (Longhorn Publishers and Worldreader, Feb. 17, 2017)
    A.M. Jeevanjee was a brilliant entrepreneur in colonial Kenya who resisted the British Empire. This reader will be delightful to children and young adults, and it is written with characters that are amusing and with whom the contemporary young readers will identify. The author is a human rights activist in Nairobi.
  • Imani and the Missing Mace

    Kinyanjui Kombani, Worldreader

    language (Phoenix Publishers and Worldreader, Sept. 3, 2018)
    Imani and her friends, Marcus, Marvin and Stacey, go to visit her father at his workplace in Parliament. An innocent visit turns into an investigation as the Speaker's mace goes missing - and the main suspect is Imani’s father. Determined to prove her father’s innocence, Imani and her friends decide to find out who stole the mace. The teenagers soon find themselves in danger when they discover that not everyone wants the missing mace found...
  • The Caterer

    Lawrence Darmani, Worldreader

    language (Step Publishers and Worldreader, July 14, 2016)
    This is a story book for children. As part of the Work People Do series, this book tells interesting ways about how caterers do their work.
  • Anna the Air Hostess

    Cynthia Hunter, Worldreader

    language (Phoenix Publishers and Worldreader, Sept. 3, 2018)
    This is the dramatic story of a girl’s struggle to become an air hostess in the jet-age, and her adventures when she succeeds. But Mrs Hunter has written much more than a story. The book is also packed full of authentic information about the training and problems that face the young air hostess. The author shows the loneliness within the excitement, the drudgery as well as the glamour and the desperate tiredness that accompanies the thrill of international flying.
  • A Sack of Money

    Njuguna Ngunjiri, Worldreader

    language (Longhorn Publishers and Worldreader, Feb. 15, 2017)
    "Miyu, the shoemaker, is a happy man who always sings. The President hears him sing and decides to reward him with a sack full of money. After receiving the money, Miyu becomes sad, so he returns the money to the President. Both the President and Miyu decide to put the money to good use to benefit all.A Sack of Money is the second story in a series of six supplementary class readers to be used with Keynote English, our rewarding primary English course designed for the new syllabus. The class readers will be useful with any course book and can also be read for pleasure outside the classroom setting.The other class readers for Standard Five are: My Tortoise Song (5A), Brave Girls (5C), Mea and the Golden Egg (5D), Madigolo Goes to School (5E), and Neema and the Bird (5F)."
  • This Country Is My Country

    Elijah Kariuki, Worldreader

    language (Longhorn Publishers and Worldreader, Feb. 17, 2016)
    In this story, a girl named Kui teams up with her friend Wachera to plant trees and keep some domestic animals during the school holidays. They end up learning how to construct houses, but soon the time comes to go back to school… Kui’s younger brother George is less concerned with buildings and trees. He takes care of wild birds and is ready to fight it out to protect them from those who want to kill them. In the end, all children are joyful for having taken care of the environment in their different ways.This Country Is My Country is the sixth story in a series of six supplementary class readers to be used with Keynote Primary English, a new primary-English course designed for the new syllabus. The class readers will be useful with any course book and can also be read for pleasure outside the classroom setting.The other readers for Standard Six are: Bunwas (6A), Ndigiri and His Friends (6B), Nana’s Eyes (6C), The Great Girl (6D), and Koi and the Dirty Road (6E).
  • Grandmother's Winning Smile

    Stanley Gazemba, Worldreader

    language (Imbada Publishers and Worldreader, Aug. 3, 2016)
    Long-listed for the Macmillan Prize, Stanley Gazemba's five-star-rated Grandmother's Winning Smile is the story of a poor Kenyan village boy, who overcomes incredible odds to emerge one of the top students in the country in his school exams, thanks to the ingenuity and stubborn resolve of his illiterate but proud grandmother. When Kinuthia’s father sold the family cow and deserted them to look for a job in the city, Kinuthia thought that all his hopes for an education and a bright future had come crashing down. The cow had been the family’s sole income earner. Now he was stuck with his ageing grandmother for a relative. The only option left was to drop out of school and join the work gangs in search of a job at the flower farm that had recently opened in his village in Central Kenya. Kinuthia’s grandmother had other plans for her only grandson. Grandmother’s Winning Smile is the story of this brave old woman who, though penniless, was gifted with amazing cunning and wit, and whose stubborn pride wouldn’t allow her to let Kinuthia join the work gangs. If you enjoyed the movie “First Grader” you will enjoy this!
  • Plain Yellow

    Ruby Yayra Goka

    Paperback (Techmate Publishers Ltd, Nov. 7, 2016)
    Amerley is not your average teenager--well, she does love books and fashion and her boyfriend, Nikoi, but that is where the similarity ends. She's become a mother and a father to her three younger sisters, not that she minds because family means everything to Amerley.When financial constraints make her relocate to a plush neighbourhood in East Legon, she puts her own dreams aside in order to be a maid to make her family's life better. But how far should her self-sacrifice go? Doesn't her own life matter? Will she always put her family first even when it puts her own life at risk?
  • Lightning

    David Kwame Kwakye, Worldreader

    eBook (Step Publishers and Worldreader, Aug. 3, 2016)
    When Nana Akua has a premonition about a boy hit by a car, she leaves Kumasi for Accra with her mother to warn the boy. Unknown to Nana Akua, Amanfo, the boy she is trying to warn, has bigger problems to deal with. Against his will, he is being forced to steal money from banks because of his special ability to walk through walls. Another girl, Awura Esi, blind, but possessing an ability to see despite her blindness, is trying to help set Amanfo free from the people who are making him steal. Nana Akua and Awura Esi's paths cross. They join forces to help set Amanfo free. In the process, they discover a truth that is as revealing as it is shocking. This book teaches that family love always finds a way to create togetherness again. 2015 Second Place CODE Burt Award for Ghanian Young Adult Literature. The CODE Burt Award is a literary award and readership initiative that recognizes excellence in young adult literature and provides young readers with engaging books that they want to read.