No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa

by Tim McKee

Book Overview

This simple collection of first person stories and compelling black-and-white photos offers more insight into South Africa than a year's worth of newspapers. Twelve South African teenagers of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789426633
• ISBN13: 9780789426635
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

This is a really good book.

No More Strangers Now is a good book.It tells about how people would fight for their lives.How they would sometimes hide in their houses because some people would break in and shoot them.It had a lot of violence in it but it would teach you how white people would treat people of color. The book was very good.I think the last chapter was the best. It told about teenagers that were Chinnesse,Afican,Japansse,White,and Mexican.They were all friends they slept over. They even go to the mall. People would just stare at them,thinking they were wierd.I would like everybody to read this book - No More Strangers Now.

Beyond Black and White

Tim McKee and Anne Blackshaw have collaborated on an important book that speaks to anyone who is interested on where South Africa is headed and where it has been. In words and photographs, the two capture the mixture of hope, confusion and uncertainty that these young South Africans face in their changing nation. Their words are frank. Their photos compelling.

An honest, eloquent and visually stunning educational tool!

As an avid reader and a teacher, I love this book! I have been savouring it for breakfast, a chapter a day, careful not to read too much and exceed my emotional limits, often moved to tears, and always impressed by the strength and passion of the young South Africans. Not only is it a joy to read, it is one of the most educationally exciting books I have ever discovered. What a great tool for opening the minds of young people around the world and helping them to seize on both their own place in history and their ability to shape the future. The voice and image of young South Africa is so poignantly conveyed, I feel as if I have just returned from an intensely revealing reality tour, making several great friends in the process. In No More Strangers Now, Blackshaw and McKee have delivered an honest, eloquent and visually stunning breakthrough!