Blood runner
Subtitle: the long race to freedom
By: James Riordan
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781845079345
Subjects: Apartheid; Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Description: Samuel's parents and sister die in a bloody massacre. His brothers retaliate by joining the anti-aparthied movement, with guns and terrorism as thier weapons. But Sam decides to fight prejudice in his own way - as a runner. Against all odds, from a poor township childhood to the Bantu homelands, from work in a gold mine to competing for gold, he focuses his mind, body and heart on the long, hard race to freedom.