• JOURNEY TO JO'BURG

JOURNEY TO JO'BURG

: Naidoo (B.)

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87pp., paperback, New Edition, HarperCollins Publishers, London (1985) 2025

ISBN: 9780008726478

 

Winner of the Carnegie Medal. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Rosen, the Children's Laureate.

Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there.

“Growing awareness of the sufferings of South Africa’s black children brings renewed point to Beverley Naidoo’s Journey to Jo'burg, a story for young readers, the more searing for its gentleness, that makes them ask questions we must learn to answer.” Guardian

Beverley Naidoo joined the struggle to end apartheid as a student in South Africa, was detained without trial and went into exile in England. Her other books include Out of Bounds, No Turning Back, Burn My Heart, The Other Side of Truth and Web of Lies.