Title: Burn my heart
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.
Subjects: Friendship, Race relations, Fiction, Autonomy and independence movements, History, Mau Mau, Children's fiction, Friendship, fiction, Kenya, fiction, Betrayal, Revolutions, Torture, Crimes against humanity, Historical fiction
Places: Kenya
Time periods: Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960