The Hidden Star
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Nolitye lives in a shack with her mother Thembi in Phola, a dusty township on the edge of Johannesburg. She is good at maths and likes collecting stones, which she places in a bucket under her bed. She also has unusual powers: she can communicate with dogs. Nolitye has two close friends, Bheki, who is overweight, and the bespectacled Four Eyes, who join with her to resist the bullying from Rotten Nellie and her gang of Spoilers.
One day, Nolitye finds a special stone that has the power to make people feel happy and laugh. Her mission from now on is to gather together the other pieces of the stone and reunite them, to stop darkness from taking control of her world.
K Sello Duiker
K. Sello Duiker was born in 1974 and grew up in Soweto and, later, East London. After graduating from Rhodes with majors in Journalism and Art History, he moved to Cape Town, and it is here that he found his writing voice. His first novel, Thirteen Cents, was awarded the 2001 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. Published the same year, The Quiet Violence of Dreams, was awarded the 2001 Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Literature. Sello always said that his mother, an insatiable reader, inspired his decision to become a writer. Sello passed away on 19 January 2005. His work has been published in the US, Italy, France, Norway, Egypt, Holland, Germany and Nigeria.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Phola lifestyle description was so vivid n well captured
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a good work, and I love it so much.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fighting bullying in an unconventional way. It's an indication that people must treat one other with long, that is Ubuntu.
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