But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students at St
a dazzling novel about a young girl who collects the missing pieces of her origin story from the family of legendary luchadores she’s never met
they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews
Egoff Children’s Literature Prize short-listed
The Soccer Fence: A story of friendship, hope, and apartheid in South Africa Juvenile Fiction Family - Multigenerational African American & Black Science & Nature - Environment But he can't decide what'sIn a country struggling with acceptance, hope can come in many different forms. As a boy, Hector loved playing soccer in his small Johannesburg township. He dreamed of playing on a real pitch with the boys from another part of the city, but apartheid made that impossible. Then, in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and apartheid began to crumble. The march toward freedom in South Africa was a slow one, but when the beloved Bafana Bafana
