Wake Up Singing | Jane Rosenthal

Author: Jane Rosenthal
Publisher: Maskew Miller Longman (1990)
ISBN-10: 0636014851
ISBN-13: 9780636014855
Condition: Very good +. Minor edgewear to the covers. A minor bump to the bottom corner pages else a tightly bound clean bright copy.
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 92
Dimensions: 21 x 13.5 x 0.6 cm
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by Jane Rosenthal
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"Mevrou, isn't it unpatriotic not to do cadets? I mean, we show we are willing to defend our country by learning to march and shoot, hey Mevrou?" " Kom nou, Celia," began Mevrou Piek, but Melanie was standing, her feet neatly together. She said, too loudly: "I think he's a disgrace to the school. Why does he have to be different to us?" Nicholas Mackenzie, sixteen, white and male, is drifting through his adolescence in Johannesburg in 1985.

A new friendship with a girl called Em brings him to the edges of another world, South Africa outside cocoon of white society. He meets Zach and Mpho, black kids his own age. Through them he finds himself drawn irrevocably into new understanding of his life in South Africa - and into direct conflict with his father, his cadet master and his schoolmates.l