Sahwira: An African Friendship

by Carolyn Marsden and Phillip Matzigkeit

Book Overview

Set in the volatile Rhodesia of the 1960s, this dramatic story, narrated from alternating viewpoints, tells of an interracial friendship tested.Like his best friend, Blessing - a Shona boy whose father is his church's pastor - twelve-year-old Evan, a white American, lives on a Methodist mission in what is now Zimbabwe. Blessing attends the mission school for black Africans, while Evan goes to a whites-only boys' school in town. As Martin Luther King...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763635758
• ISBN13: 9780763635756
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7