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It is hoped that this is the first in a series, as there are several loose ends that need to be tied up. It features a spunky teenage girl who is the unlikely sidekick to a flawed superhero with the ability to freeze time.
Featuring a young girl on a quest, this has been marketed as a cross-over novel, blurring the boundaries between teenage and adult fiction. Arbormoss by Jens Pieper is an environmental fantasy where a teenage girl is given powers by aliens to help prevent the destruction of Earth. Other, less impressive, but still worth noting fantasies are: Children of the Moon by L. It is set in , a world where teenagers rule and they all aspire to be called to The City, a mark of success.
The protagonist is selected to go to The City, a future Cape Town, where he is caught up in a plot to overthrow the regime. Aimed at slightly younger teens, it is set in a future of global warming and environmental devastation where the oceans have risen, drowning cities.
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A young girl is kidnapped from her rural home in the dry interior and taken to an island city on the top of Table Mountain where technology is failing and the Tekkies hope to use her to restore the rain. Savannah is set in a dystopic future where animals roam free in Africa while the people are kept in reserves.
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Of the more recent novels Praise Song depicts the murder of a teacher when she discloses her HIV positive status, while Because Pula Means Rain explores prejudice in Botswana, where a teenager with albinism is shunned by villagers. Much of the published fiction for teenagers deals with serious issues. Scientific experiments to turn algae into biofuels form the basis of the story, which has elements of mystery and romance, touching on environmental issues, mistrust of strangers, and making a new life after parental divorce.
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In Black Swan Down, Coetzee explores alcoholism, father-son relationships, friendship and second chances. He finds solace in his hand-made canoe on the lake, which is the catalyst for much of the resolution which occurs. When a teenage girl finds out a terrible secret about her father it complicates her already fraught relationship with her mother. A visiting Buddhist monk is able to help her to understand her troubled life in a different light. Soliloquy by Stephen Finn is a dark and disturbing novel.
Told in the form of a diary of a teenager being tried for the murder of another boy, it gives a harrowing insight into the effects of bullying. Fuse by S. Partridge also explores school violence, bullying and abuse. The main character is abused at home and bullied at school. When a fellow victim suggests fighting back by blowing up the school he is drawn to the idea, with disastrous results.
The Goblet Club , also by Partridge, is a darkly gothic tale which embraces magic, mystery and intrigue as a group of students plot to poison their sinister headmaster. Linzi Glass has two novels set in the recent past. The Year the Gypsies Came is set in the s and shows a dysfunctional family in a disturbed society. It covers issues such as police brutality, neglectful parents, abuse and rape as seen through the eyes of a year-old girl.
Ruby Red is a coming-of-age account set against the background of the Soweto uprisings and explores first love, anger and courage. Gaby Halberstam lived in South Africa until she was 15 and draws on that experience for her novel Blue Sky Freedom , which is set in South Africa in the s and inspired by the death of Steve Biko. Against a backdrop of black consciousness and the Soweto uprisings, a young white girl is drawn into the struggle when her childhood friend goes on the run from the police.
Dancing in the Dust by Kagiso Lesego Molope depicts the teenage experience in the townships in the s, a period of school boycotts, struggle politics and soldiers in the townships. Her second novel, The Mending Season, shows a young girl attending a formerly white school, where a racist incident shows how much work still needs to be done on race relations. Afrika by Colleen Craig shows a teenage girl accompanying her South African mother when she returns to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They are reunited in where they work together to uncover corruption in a government department, and rekindle their romance.
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Burn My Heart is set in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising of the s, while The Other Side of Truth and its sequel Web of Lies follow two Nigerian children who flee to England as refugees after their mother is killed in political violence. Dianne Hofmeyr has several recent novels exploring the distant past. Eye of the Sun is a historical adventure set in ancient Egypt, where a young girl uncovers a plot to kill the prince and steal his throne. The story is continued in Eye of the Moon. Fish Notes and Star Songs touches on the power of San rock art and the story of Sarah Baartman, as three teenagers pass through a cave wall into the past.
Take Me to the River by Russell Kaschula, a coming-of-age story set in the rural Eastern Cape, was written in English and isiXhosa and published simultaneously in both languages. Mama, I Sing to You, also by Kaschula, shows a young man torn between tradition and modernity. Alternative Realities by Jackie Nagtegaal, written in Afrikaans when Nagtegaal was 16, has now been translated by the author and is an account of a weekend in the life of a rebellious teenager. Poverty, homelessness and crime are concerns which affect many teenagers, and many novels depict this harsh reality.
Davids is the story of a young girl growing up on the Cape Flats where she experiences poverty, crime and gangsterism, but also friendship, family and community. When his father vanishes he goes on the run, trying to find his father and evade the authorities, as well as some criminals who are also looking for him. The Summer of Toffie and Grummer by Edyth Bulbring deals with serious issues such as alcoholism and anorexia, yet they are handled with humour.
When her mother goes into rehab, Beatrice must spend the summer holiday with her grandmother in a small west coast village.
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She reluctantly makes friends with a local boy, Toffie, and embarks on a matchmaking quest to find the perfect man for her recently widowed grandmother. In this case a young boy must spend three months with his grandfather in an old age complex. Melly, Mrs Ho and Me follows a teenage girl as she adjusts to the divorce of her parents, a new school, and figures out who she wants to be. Bulbring also has a fantasy adventure for younger children, Cornelia Button and The Globe of Gamagion as well as an adult novel, The Club originally written for the teenage market, but reworked for adults and is a name to watch.
This brief introduction shows that there is no shortage of South African fiction for teenagers. What is needed is for teachers, librarians and parents to make this material available. It is hoped that reviewers will write about these books, libraries will stock them, and teachers will use them in the classroom. And that teenagers will read them. Beake, Lesley Remembering Green.
Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, , Cape Town: Ispirato, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, Case, Dianne and Hart, Yvonne. Katy of Sky Road. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, De Villiers, Leon. Shorn ; translated from Afrikaans by Elsa Silke. Pretoria: LAPA, Dunseith, Peter R. Cape Town: Tafelberg, Johannesburg: Iziza Publishing, Halberstam, Gaby Blue Sky Freedom. Hofmeyr, Dianne Eye of the Sun. Sequel to: Eye of the Moon. Guarantee: In the unlikely event of us not delivering on our Matchmaker guarantee to you as per your package, we extend membership for free until we do.
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