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One of a series of readers for African students which aims to help them to develop an awareness and a love of language, and consists of stories from all over Africa. In this story Naledi loves the bright lights when she comes to live in the city with her aunt and uncle. Then everything goes wrong.

One of a series of readers for African students which aims to help them to develop an awareness and a love of language, and consists of stories from all over Africa. In this story the winner of a cross-country race will fly to Kenya. Kenna wants to win, but he's not the best runner in the school.

Thoughtful, insightful and compelling, Granite is a well-executed imagining of what happened to cause the collapse of the civilisation of Great Zimbabwe (called Zimba Remabwe in the book). While adult historical fiction has experienced a recent resurgence in interest, narratives are mostly drawn from European history; Granite is refreshingly African, illuminating a relatively unexplored area in fiction. It also shifts fictionalised history away from the European centre: in the story, Zimba Remabwe exists as a sophisticated African city state well integrated with the rest of the mid-fifteenth-century world. It is a world in which Arab scholars travel from China and India to Europe and Britain, filing their chronicles in the revered library of Timbuktu."

"Y de nuevo bajó el cuchillo con rabia, pero esta vez no sobre las espinacas. Esta vez el cuchillo le cortó en la mano con toda la fuerza de su ira. Y poco después el baño oleria a Dettol mientras yo miraba fijamente el charco de sangre oscura que lentamente se iba extendiendo por las espinacas troceadas. Y mi único pensamiento fue que se lo había merecido. Así terminó para mí el Día Mundial del Sida de 2002: de la misma manera amarga que había comenzado."--Back cover

Lisa thinks that she has a good agreement with her boyfriend, Mark, to keep them both safe from HIV and AIDS. But then Lisa discovers a love letter written by Mark to another girl called Pearl. Has Mark decided to look for excitement elsewhere?