Books in Knockouts series

This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid. Their journey illustrates at every turn the grim realities of apartheid - the pass laws, bantustans, racism, the breakdown of family life.The opulence of the white "Madam's" house contrasts starkly with the reality that Naledi and Tiro face - that their baby sister is suffering from starvation, not an incurable disease. This edition of Beverley Naidoo's classic story includes a special "Why You'll Love This Book" introduction by Michael Rosen, the Children's Laureate.

This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid. Their journey illustrates at every turn the grim realities of apartheid - the pass laws, bantustans, racism, the breakdown of family life.The opulence of the white "Madam's" house contrasts starkly with the reality that Naledi and Tiro face - that their baby sister is suffering from starvation, not an incurable disease. This edition of Beverley Naidoo's classic story includes a special "Why You'll Love This Book" introduction by Michael Rosen, the Children's Laureate.

This title is part of the "Knockouts" series which offers romance, thrillers, history, adventure, autobiography, science fiction and humour in the form of short stories, novels, poetry and plays. The content is designed to cover the whole range of secondary school students. The series has also been divided by level of reading difficulty which is indicated by colour: pink is the easiest to read, green is slightly more demanding and black is for fairly confident readers. This volume is classified as pink level. It is a story of family relationships set in modern China. Linyi and her brother Bao are at the centre of an argument that threatens to tear their family apart. With the support of her grandmother who remembers China before the Revolution, Linyi and her family find a way of sorting out their problems.

This series contains stories of romance, thrillers, history, adventure, autobiography, science fiction and humour, designed to cover the whole range in secondary school. The books have been divided by level of reading difficulty, indicated by the colour on the back cover. Pink is the easiest to read, green a bit more demanding, and black is aimed at more confident readers. This volume contains two amusing plays at the pink level.