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      [2017], Pre-adolescent, Carolrhoda Books Call No: [Fic]    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: When AIDS devastates thirteen-year-old Auma's village in Kenya during the 1980s, Auma must choose between staying to help her family and working toward a track scholarship that will take her away from home.
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      2017., Pre-adolescent, Carolrhoda Books Call No: FIC ODHIAMBO   Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: When AIDS devastates Auma's village in Kenya during the 1980s, Auma must choose between staying to help her family and working toward a track scholarship that will take her away from home.
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      [2017], Pre-adolescent, Carolrhoda Books Call No: REALISTIC F ODH    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: When AIDS devastates thirteen-year-old Auma's village in Kenya during the 1980s, Auma must choose between staying to help her family and working toward a track scholarship that will take her away from home.
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      [2014]., Spiegel & Grau Call No: REALISTIC F LEV   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: A tale set against the backdrop of Kenya's poverty-stricken slums and luxury resorts follows the experiences of a young drug runner who makes deliveries to a reclusive artist before his witness of murder leads to his adoption by a woman who tests his sense of morality.
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      2009, c2007., Pre-adolescent, Amistad Call No: [Fic]   Edition: 1st U.S. ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: While the Mau Mau rebellion threatens the British settlers living in Kenya during the 1950s, Mathew and Mugo maintain their friendship, despite their different races, but during these tense times, a single act of betrayal could alter everything.
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      2009, c2007., Amistad Call No: Young adult FIC NAIDOO   Edition: 1st U.S. ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Matthew and Mungo, boys with a different skin color and culture, have a friendship that is tested during the Mau Mau bid for national indepencence.
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      2009, c2007., Pre-adolescent, Amistad Call No: [Fic]    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: In Kenya during the 1950s, two boys (one white, one black) are friends until a rebellion of Africans against white landowners escalates.
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      2009, c2007., Pre-adolescent, Amistad Call No: Historical Fiction   Edition: 1st U.S. ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: While the Mau Mau rebellion threatens the British settlers living in Kenya during the 1950s, Mathew and Mugo maintain their friendship, despite their different races, but during these tense times, a single act of betrayal could alter everything.
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      2009., Juvenile, Amistad Call No: FIC NAIDOO   Edition: 1st U.S. ed.    Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Mathew and Mugo are friends in Kenya in the 1950s despite differences of class and race. Then Kenyans begin to rebel against British settlers and an act of betrayal could threaten Mathew and Mugo's friendship.
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      c2011., Primary, Schwartz & Wade Books Call No: [Fic]   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Chirchir wants to help her family with their daily chores, but each of their tasks proves too challenging for her.
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      c2011., Primary, Schwartz & Wade Books Call No: [E]   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Chirchir wants to help her family with their daily chores, but each of their tasks proves too challenging for her.
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      [2017]., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYSTERY FIC AND    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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      [2017]., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Young adult FIC ANDERSON    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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      -- City of saints and thieves
      [2017]., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYSTERY    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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      -- City of saints and thieves
      [2017], Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYSTERY F AND    Availability:2 of 2     At Location(s) Summary Note: Tina and her mother first arrived in Kenya as refugees from Congo desperately searching for a better life. Trading the peril of their besieged village for the busy metropolis of Sangui, they can barely believe their luck when Tina's mother finds work as a maid for the Greyhills, one of the city's most illustrious families. But when Tina discovers her mother shot dead in Mr. Greyhill's private study, she knows he pulled the trigger. With revenge on her mind, Tina spends the next four years surviving the streets on her own, training as a master thief - waiting for her chance for vengeance.
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      c2009., Philomel Books Call No: FIC HOROWITZ    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Series Title: Alex RiderSummary Note: "Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic disaster that will kill millions. Forced to ask MI6 for protection, Alex finds himself being manipulated in a deadly game that could lead to the destruction of an entire East African country"--Amazon.com.
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      c2009., Philomel Books Call No: YA FIC HOR    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Series Title: Alex Rider adventures   Volume: 08.Summary Note: "Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic disaster that will kill millions. Forced to ask MI6 for protection, Alex finds himself being manipulated in a deadly game that could lead to the destruction of an entire East African country"--Amazon.com.