Books published by publisher Longhorn Publishers and Worldreader

The Ghost Engineer of the Railway Museum is an adventure story set at the Nairobi Railway Museum. One day, while on a visit to the museum with his family, Zeddy Chengo, while wandering through the old locomotives displayed in the museum yard, comes across a curious old man who not only claims to have survived a famous attack by the dreaded man-eater lions of Tsavo, but dares him to take a ride on one of the locomotives with him the coming Sunday. It is The Mount Shengena, the biggest locomotive at the museum, and which he claims to have revived into running condition. Thrilled, Chengo accepts, allowing himself to be lured into an adventure of a lifetime involving pirates and buried treasure... and skulls as well!

The Rhinos stumble into a secret oathing ceremony. They know they must forget what they just saw. But Mato gets kidnapped. The Rhinos and the Cheetahs set out for Mission Impossible. Will they succeed? Worldreader presents this e-book in a new series showcasing fiction from Sub-Saharan Africa. Are you a worldreader? Read more about this not-for-profit social enterprise at worldreader.org.

A 2014 Burt Award for Young Adult African Literature (BAYAAL) winning title, Plain Yellow, by Ruby Yayra Goka is one of the first YA novels in Ghana to talk about rape and sexual violence. Naa Amerley Amarteyfio, is a-not-so-average teenager. Well, she does love books and fashion and her boyfriend, Nikoi, but that is where the similarity ends. After the birth of yet another daughter, Amerley’s father disappears again even though the baby was stillborn. Her mother keeps to her bed and refuses to do anything. Amerley’s parents’ responsibilities fall on her shoulders. She takes on the role of being both a mother and a father to her three younger sisters, but she doesn’t mind because family means everything to Amerley.Salvation comes to the Amarteyfio family in the form of a rich aunt who offers payment for Amerley’s services as a maid. Amerley is forced to relocate to a plush neighbourhood in East Legon, where she puts her own dreams aside in order to make her family's life better. Life in East Legon is far different than anything she’s ever known, but she adapts and learns to fit in until one night when everything changes. Amerley is forced to decide how far she will continue sacrificing herself to make life better for her family.Told in alternating chapters between the present and the past, which showcase the stark differences between the two worlds Amerley is straddling, this book reminds readers that silence is not always golden, sometimes it’s just plain yellow. This book is a good resource for discussing sexual violence and what to do in its aftermath. Six of Ruby Yayra Goka’s books have won awards in the Burt Award for African Literature competitions. She has also won an award in the inaugural Burt Award for African Literature (BAAL): All Star Edition in 2017. Goka won an award in the Authorship and Creative Writing Category in the 40 under 40 awards in Ghana. Her books are used as supplementary reading materials in schools across Ghana.

Winner of the 2017 Anasoma Writing Contest, June Mwikali has written a book about female empowerment in a man's world. After Sue Zipapa tells her handsome, successful, work obsessed boyfriend Carlos she wants out of their relationship, she embarks on an unexpected adventure as headmistress of the Sukkhuta Primary School. Can Sue transform the backwards village and its inhabitants and get them to work together to improve not just the school but their lives? Will Sue and Carlos reconcile after she has found her calling in this remote village?

Erick Livumbazi Ngoda won the 2017 Anasoma Writing Contest for his book Making the Team. It is an inspiring story about Jessica Apiyo Omulo, a young girl with a talent and passion for soccer. Although there is no soccer league for girls, Jess has short hair and a lean body and passes for a boy, excelling on the team. The book recounts Jess’s trials and tribulations as she works several jobs to help support her sick mother and younger sisters while practicing for. Will Jess get the scholarship she so passionately wants and deserves? Or will her gender and trouble with the law keep her from attaining her dream?

Kenneth Kaigua, winner of the 2017 Anasoma Writing Contest, has written an aspirational book about Kenya in 2037 when the first woman president has been elected. President Makena Akai is confronted with challenges, both personal and political, and she struggles to make the right choice for her children and for her country. Should she pay blackmailers and protect her daughter's indiscretion? Can she bring a divided and discouraged country back together? Is a woman capable of governing such a country? Can we hope for a better future for men and women?

In this tale by Meshack Asare, one of Africa's best loved children's authors, a young shepherd meets another boy from a rival village, down by the boabob tree. The two boys, aided by a mysterious drum maker, confront their villages' age-old animosity. Worldreader proudly presents this ebook in a new series of children's and young adult books from Sub-Saharan Africa. Worldreader is a non-profit organization committed to delivering digital books to children and families in the developing world using e-book technology. By purchasing this book you directly contribute to this effort by helping fund school literacy programs, and promote the writing and publication of great books from local authors everywhere.

Dani is gifted in all ways, yet he lives under the shadow of his hero, an old friend and school dropout. The day he discovers a heap of money and a gun under a trap door in his friend's house, he realizes his friend was no longer a mere bully but a member of a dangerous gang wanted for various crimes ranging from smuggling diamonds, carjacking, to murders. This becomes the beginning of a nightmare that nearly costs Dani his life as well as that of his other friend, Zack. Worldreader proudly presents this ebook in a new series of children's and young adult books from Sub-Saharan Africa. Worldreader is a non-profit organization committed to delivering digital books to children and families in the developing world using e-book technology. By purchasing this book you directly contribute to this effort by helping fund school literacy programs, and promote the writing and publication of great books from local authors everywhere.

In this fable, Naima and Rahima are twins. Their father is a poor fisherman in an island on the Indian Ocean. One day they went to the seashore and discovered a strange coloured fish trapped in a pond after the tide had gone. The fish popped out of the pond and said, “Please take me back to the ocean.” The twins shuddered with fear. But Rahima was courageous. She took the fish back to the ocean and from then on started their adventure with strange creatures of a small island who wanted the twins to search for a face carved on a rock, which was buried under the sea.Reading through this fabulous adventure narrated in a simple readable and exciting prose, you will meet a talking parrot, dolphin, mermaid, a wise old tortoise and wise men who, while guiding the twins on how to find the mysterious Face under the sea, also tell them something about what happiness is and the best way to achieve it, not only for human beings but for all creatures on earth.