Out of Bounds

Out of Bounds
Author: Beverley Naidoo
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2001-06-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0141928255

A collection of short stories - four previously published and three new - linked by the theme of young people experiencing personal dilemmas. All are set in South Africa, first under apartheid and then after the first democratic elections. They cover the period from 1950 to 2000 and reflect the lives of a range of young people, black and white, living in what was for many years seen as the world's most openly racist society.

Chain of Fire

Chain of Fire
Author: Beverley Naidoo
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2004-09-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0141928263

Set in South Africa at the height of the apartheid regime, when the government started a policy of ethnic cleansing, forcibly removing people from their homes and moving them to so-called 'homelands'. Schoolchildren Naledi and Tiro are caught up in the protests and resistance as they and their grandmother are threatened with removal from their village. Protestors are arrested and beaten, but still people fight on. Freedom lies at the end of a long road.

Slam!

Slam!
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1996
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780590486682

Sixtee-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.

Fortune's Bones

Fortune's Bones
Author: Marilyn Nelson
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1629795887

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award For young readers comes a poetic commemoration of the life of an 18th-century slave, from a past poet laureate and three-time National Book Award finalist For over 200 years, the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut has housed a mysterious skeleton. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the bones were those of an enslaved man named Fortune, who was owned by a local doctor. After Fortune’s death, the doctor rendered the bones. Further research revealed that Fortune had married, had fathered four children, and had been baptized later in life. His bones suggest that after a life of arduous labor, he died in 1798 at about the age of 60. The Manumission Requiem is Marilyn Nelson’s poetic commemoration of Fortune’s life. Detailed notes and archival photographs enhance the reader’s appreciation of the poem.