Book 2009

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's
Language: English
Published: 2009

AIDS (Disease)
Juvenile fiction
Brothers and sisters
Social conditions
Orphans
Fiction
Grandmothers
Hope

Liddy and brother Joe are orphaned by AIDS in their small African community, and together they struggle to bring up their little sister. Even though their own grandmother makes life difficult for them, they have their mother's journals to keep them going. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.