Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
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When the Ground is Hard
by Malla Nunn
Ages: 12+
Published: 2019
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-525-51557-9
Keywords: School Stories, Race relations, Social/Emotional learning, Apartheid, Fathers and daughters, Swaziland, Mothers and daughters
The tricky navigation of middle-school society is complicated by racial and class prejudices in Swaziland. Then a brutal neighbor brings the hostilities into the open.