Search Results: Returned 20 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 20
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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: 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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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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-- 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.
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c2006, Preschool, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From rooster crow to bedtime, a Kenyan boy plays and visits neighbors all through his village, even though he is supposed to be watching his grandfather's cows.
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c2006., Primary, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a children's book for early readers about a little Kenyan boy who gets distracted by all there is to see and do and forgets what his mama asked him to do.
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-- Let us go swiming on doomsday[2019]., Adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: REALISTIC F AND Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Forced to become a child soldier, sixteen-year-old Somali refugee Abdi must confront his painful past.
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Tumblehome Learning. Inc. Call No: MYSTERY F NOY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nala travels to Kenya to investigate mosquitoes' reactions to her father's family. All goes well until a man who is heartbroken by his daughter's death from malaria kidnaps her.
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Tumblehome Learning. Inc. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nala travels to Kenya to investigate mosquitoes' reactions to her father's family. All goes well until a man who is heartbroken by his daughter's death from malaria kidnaps her.
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2009., Primary, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling librarian with an injured camel arrives at his school.
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2005, Juvenile, House of Anansi Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st North American Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For Kariuki, life in his small Kenyan village is one great adventure. It gets even more interesting when he meets Nigel, an English boy who is visiting his grandfather. Kariuki befriends Nigel even though the rest of the villagers fear him and call him "the mzungu boy."
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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Accord Books, Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company Call No: HISTORICAL F OCH Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1970s Kenya, ten-year-old Lumush and his three friends discover a criminal operation that puts both themselves and their families in danger.
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2003., Pre-adolescent, Silver Whistle/Harcourt Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Casey is unhappy about being sent on a trip to Kenya with his wacky Aunt Elaine, until he encounters fascinating customs, endangered animals, and wild adventures.
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-- Jack Stalwart :c2008., Weinstein Books Call No: SER #6 F HUN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Secret Agent Jack Stalwart Volume: bk. 6Summary Note: "Overview Meet Jack Stalwart. Code name: COURAGE. Jack is an ordinary kid who becomes a secret agent by night, thwarting evil all over the world as he searches for his missing brother, Max. Destination: Kenya Finally Jack receives a coded message from Max! But before he can decipher it, Jack is called away on a mission to Kenya. Someone has been killing elephants for their ivory tusks. Can Secret Agent Jack Stalwart stop the poachers before more of these endangered animals are destroyed?" --Back cover.
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[2018]., Primary, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: Easy NYONG'O Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: 741.5 JAMIESON Availability:6 of 6 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--
