Burn my heart
By: Beverley Naidoo
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Amistad (HarperCollins); Amistad
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780061432972
Subjects: Friendship; Race relations; Fiction; Autonomy and independence movements; History
Description: Matthew and Mungo, boys with a different skin color and culture, have a friendship that is tested during the Mau Mau bid for national independence.

Two boys, one white, one black, share a friendship in Kenya in the 1950s. They are friends in the face of the growing Mau Mau rebellion, which threatens British settlers with violence as black Kenyans struggle to win back their land.
Notes: Originally published in Great Britain by the Penguin Group, 2007.

First U.S. edition, HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.

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