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Karoo Boy
Karoo Boy
Author: Troy Blacklaws
After a freak accident, Douglas's twin brother is dead, and his family's fragmentation begins. His mother packs up their home in Cape Town and takes him to a tiny backwater town in the semi-desert Karoo region, where she withdraws into her painting. Douglas, a city kid in an insular community, makes only two friends: a beautiful girl named Marik...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780156030656
ISBN-10: 0156030659
Publication Date: 9/5/2005
Pages: 208
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Harvest Books
Book Type: Paperback
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"Blazing with color and light, Karoo Boy offers a sensuous and lyrical evocation of South Africa that leaves a lasting impression and untimately ends on a note of hope....Against the backdrop of the bitter conflict of 1970s South Africa, Douglas develops a clearer insight into himself and his place in the world, a world where dreams and reality meet in a surprising twist."
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A coming of age story about a South African boy who moves from Cape Town to the edge of the desert following a series of family disasters.


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