Themba: A Boy Called Hope

by Lutz van Dijk

Shortlisted for The Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation

Made into a movie featuring some of South Africa's leading actors and released during the World Cup Themba -a boy called hope, won several awards. This is the coming-of-age story of a young man who leaves a rural village with his sister to go in search of their mother who has gone to the city to work. Eventually they find her, too sick to work, alone and in need...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906582211
• ISBN13: 9781906582210
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Aurora Metro Books
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher