LEO JANTJIES AND THE ESPORTS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

155pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2023

Novel for young adults.

Thirteen-year-old Leo Jantjies, who loves playing Theatre of Gods and Heroes (TOGAH), gets a call from a pro team wanting to recruit him for the Esports World Championship in Paris.

Sally Ann Partridge has received the MER Prize for Youth Literature for four of her novels and won a SALA Award for her novel, Mine, in 2019.  She has also been honoured by IBBY International for her young adult fiction, and was named one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 notable Young South Africans of 2011.