Hodder African Readers – serie

Series of readers for African schools

Hodder African Readers are high-interest books designed to appeal to both boys and girls. They are highly motivating adventure and action stories which attract the reader's attention and hold it through the story. Together these titles form a strong, vibrant and attractive supplementary readers series for the African schools.The Fearless Four: Something is going very badly wrong at the Township soccer final. Nobody can understand what is happening to the game - except Taka Taka Tom. He runs into two villains with an evil plot, and soon finds himself in terrible danger. Will Susan, Ken and Tiny be able to save their friend? Find out in the first adventure of the Fearless Four! Other titles in the series include:- The Fearless Four - The Fearless Four: Hijack! - The Fearless Four and the Graveyard Ghost - The Fearless Four and the Smugglers - Twin Trouble - Dead Men's Bones - Sauna and the Drug Pedlars - Time Bomb - The Power of Corruption - God's Case: No Appeal - Magic, Mystery and Mister Prince - One Man, Two Votes

Sindi's got problems. She's forgotten how to study and feels guilty for cheating in every test. But that's not all. Her best friend Mandisa has fallen for an older man, Mr T, who she met in an Internet chat room.Sindi doesn't trust Mr T at all. In a bid to help her friend, she teams up with Siya, Mandisa's handsome ex. Together they come up with a brilliant plan to find out the truth about Mr T, and along the way Sindi finds herself falling in love.About the Hodder African ReadersHodder African Readers are high-interest books designed to appeal to both boys and girls. They are highly motivating, contemporary adventure and action stories which attract the reader's attention and hold it through the story. Together these titles form a strong, vibrant and attractive supplementary readers series for African schools..

Thandeka has a dream. She wants to leave her rural school and get accepted into the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. When she learns that her headmistress didn't even put forward her name for Oprah's school, she decided to take matters into her own hands and find a way to get to the school hundred of kilometres away. The journey turns into a nightmare and Thandeka lands up in hospital trying desperately to keep her dream alive.

Fourteen-year-old Ana is brought illegally to South Africa from Mozambique. She is frightened but hopeful that she will find a job to help support her family. Instead, she finds herself imprisoned in an isolated house, forced to clean and do laundry. When she hears that she is going to be sold as a 'wife', Ana makes a daring escape.She befriends Zandi and her family and faces new challenges in an unfamiliar school. But when Ana goes looking for her father, and Zandi follows, they end up in worse trouble than they could ever have imagined.Hodder African Readers are high-interest books designed to appeal to both boys and girls. They are highly motivating, contemporary adventure and action stories which attract the reader's attention and hold it through the story. Together these titles form a strong, vibrant and attractive supplementary readers series for African schools.

When Boipelo reads about a Canadian man who trades a red paper clip on the Internet for a house, he decides to try a similar idea in his village. He starts trading with a clay cow and ends up with... an unexpected result. Can he bear the embarrassment of the whole village laughing at his idea? How will he fix his relationship with his best friend? Will the girl he admires think he's an idiot? And will he dodge the shady deals that people want him to make.

Madulo goes to spend her school holiday with her cousin Serowe. She doesn't expect it to be too exciting, but thanks to an unfriendly bus driver, a teenage boy, an expedition with her friends, a frightening encounter with thieves and a certificate for bravery, the holiday turns out to be the adventure of a lifetime.