Interest Level
Grades 9 - 12
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 8.9
Lexile Measure®: 860L
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: NR
Type of Book: Chapter Book
Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Africa
- Character and Values
- African
- Human Rights
- Social Studies through Literature
- Leadership and Responsibility
- Tolerance and Acceptance
- Prejudice and Tolerance Experiences
Reading Quiz Programs
About This Book
Paton's deeply moving story of Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the backdrop of a land and people riven by racial inequality and injustice, remains the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history. Passionately African, yet timeless and universal, it is a work of searing beauty.
Agonizing over the future of South Africa, both blacks and whites alike must find a way to end the conditions that are causing native youth to turn to lives of prostitution, theft, and even murder. When the teenage son of a native preacher accidentally kills one of the few white men who could have changed the situation, it falls to two fathers to reach a higher understanding of race relations.
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