Books published by publisher Longhorn Publishers and Worldreader

In the death trap, a son of a Kenya's commissioner of police, reportedly goes missing along with a fellow student, Monica, while on a school camping trip. This triggers a heart-chilling helicopter rescue operation in the dry rocky terrain neighbouring a lake in Kenya.Had the students been kidnapped in the remote and desolate country? There are deadly encounters and unfolding drama that takes the reader through a gripping suspence.

This is the story of a young and talented girl. Her outstanding performance at a school concert earns her the award of Dancer of the Year. Her joy and peaceful life is shattered when a rumour that she is HIV-positive makes her the object of ridicule and rejection at school. She contemplates quitting school after discovering more hidden truths. Fina later overcomes the stigma associated with HIV and AIDS and leads other pupils to form the Be a Friend club.

Here is another exciting book in the popular Phoenix Young Readers Library. This time you learn about the many and varied duties of a Probation Officer. Pamela’s adventures are woven into a thrilling story, which, as with the author’s other books, has a completely authentic background. The book begins with an embarrassing experience when Pamela finds a newborn baby left outside her office door. She then goes up-country for various intriguing investigations, including unravelling the mystery of the disappearance of a Probation Officer.

Eavesdropping on his parents, James Kirika, a fifteen-year-old teenager, hears a conversation that suggests that he is not the biological son of the man he calls 'Father'. This realisation sends him into a tortured search for the man who brought him into this world. Things get complicated when the chief source of information, his old and hallucinating grandmother, gives him a fuzzy lead. Does he ever find out the truth?

Little White Man is one of the books in the Anchor Readers. For the youthful Kariuki, life is one big adventure, with as many twists and turns as the forest and the river around which his existence revolves. He has seen everything, knows everything, and loves it all. Then one day, a very interesting but totally ignorant stranger drops into Kariuki’s life and drastically changes all that, disrupting permanently the life of the entire village. Little White Man is a thrilling adventure set in Nanyuki in the early fifties.

Why does the tortoise walk very slowly even in the rain? Why does the tortoise carry a heavy load on its back without ever putting it aside? These are some of the questions that are asked in My Tortoise Song. The book is a collection of poems covering themes on the natural environment and social relationships, among others.My Tortoise Song is the first 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: A Sack of Money (5B), Brave Girls (5C), Mea and the Golden Egg (5D), Madigolo Goes to School (5E), and Neema and the Bird (5F).