- Race relations, Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction, Bullies
Robert Jacklin is thrown into the aftermath of war when his family moves from England to Zimbabwe in the 1980s, and when he is enrolled in a prestigious boarding school, he faces racism and violence and must make a difficult decision as a group of white boys decides to protest the country's new government.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and raw.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Jason Wallace
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Holiday House, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099575269
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