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Book 2012

Out of Shadows

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Publisher
Penguin Random House
Language
English
Published
2012
  • Race relations
  • Conduct of life
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Bullies
  • British
  • Fiction
  • Bullying
  • Boarding schools

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.

In 1983, at an elite boys' boarding school in Zimbabwe, thirteen-year-old English lad Robert Jacklin finds himself torn between his black roommate and the white bullies still bitter over losing power through the recent civil war.