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African Children Talk about AIDS
By Ellis, Deborah
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-55041-913-9
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry & Whiteside
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2005
Gr 6-Up In the summer of 2003, Ellis traveled to Malawi and Zambia and met with children and teens whose lives have been touched by AIDS. In short, autobiographical vignettes, the young people, many of whom are orphans or living on the street, discuss their families, their favorite pastimes, their fears, and their dreams. Poignant and often bleak, the stories paint a portrait of life in Africa and t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2005
In Zambia three children speak of their parents' deaths from AIDS: Collins, age eight, says his father "ran out of blood"; seven-year-old Martha's father died when "the air went out of him, and he was too tired to get it back in again"; while Manuel, eight, describes his mother as someone whose "body was there but she wasn't inside it anymore." These children join forty-nine other interviewees from sub-Saha...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
