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Magic tree house. Original series volume 11
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa where they meet up with wonderful wild animals, a very hungry warrior, and where they even solve a riddle.
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The no. 1 car spotter volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
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110 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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When the cart breaks down and the villagers can't get their goods to market, Oluwalase Babatunde Benson, otherwise known as the No. 1 car spotter in his village, comes up with a brilliant solution.
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"Written in the voice of Mother Africa, who speaks to her children--human beings--this stunning picture book thrums with the love between mother and child as it celebrates humanity's common roots. Before words or tools or fire, Mother Africa's caves sheltered us and her forests fed us. She could not protect us from all dangers, but, like mothers everywhere, she gave her children all she could and sent us into the world with confidence and love. Told...
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Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 6
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Flat Stanley, his father, and his brother travel to Africa in search of a recently discovered flat skull, hoping it will provide clues to Stanley's condition.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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264 pages ; 20 cm
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"Life is comfortable for twelve-year-old T'Challa in his home of Wakanda, an isolated, technologically advanced African nation. But as conflict brews near Wakanda, T'Challa's father makes a startling announcement: he's sending T'Challa and his friend M'Baku to school in America and they've been enrolled at South Side Middle School in the heart of Chicago. Despite being given a high-tech suit and a Vibranium ring, T'Challa realizes he might not be...
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Legend of the animal healer volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008], c2006
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180 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.
9) Race forever
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Choose your own adventure volume 7
Pub. Date
c2005
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122 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
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You are a race car driver alone in Africa where the course is tough, hazardous, and risky, with unscrupulous competitors. Floods, elephants and local guerrillas are nothing compared to the drivers who will do anything to win. The race course you choose may spell the beginning or end of your career.
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c1981
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[32] p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
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A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.
A tale, told in rhythmic, read-along verse, describes how a resourceful bull finds water for his thirsty herd and ends the drought afflicting the plain.
11) Catch that goat!
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Pub. Date
2002
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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Ayoka is put in charge of the family goat, who promptly vanishes and runs through the town's market stalls taking whatever looks tasty.
12) Wanda the brave
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2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Wanda visits the hair salon, but when Aunty Ada wants to straighten Wanda's hair instead of giving her the style she wants, Wanda and her new friend Nkiruka come up with a plan.
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c2005
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
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After working together to obtain honey, the African honey badger always shares it with his partner, the honeyguide bird, until one day when the honey badger becomes greedy and his feathered friend decides to teach him a lesson.
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Rwendigo tales volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 133 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
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Eleven-year-old Kiisa and her messenger bird, Njili, go on a dangerous rescue mission in Africa that includes rebels, stolen girls, illegal logging, a hungry cobra, and learning bravery and forgiveness along the way.
19) African Town
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[2022]
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438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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1859. The transatlantic slave trade has been banned for more than fifty years, and the South is facing the threat of a civil war. Timothy Maeher resents the government interference in his right to make a living. Making a bet that he can smuggle enslaved Africans into the United States without being caught, he commissions the Clotilda, and brings back 110 African captives. Among them are Abilè, Gumpa, Kêhounco, Kossola, and Kupolee, who survive...
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