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No Turning Back

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NO TURNING BACK by Carnegie-medal winning author Beverley Naidoo is the powerful and moving story of Sipho and his struggle to survive on the city streets of Johannesburg in the 1990s. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.
South African society is on the brink of a huge change as apartheid comes to an end, but will it make any difference to the tough life of Sipho and the other street kids?
The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. O'Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 4, 1999
      In a starred review, PW called this powerful novel "a rare and moving glimpse" into the life of a homeless boy in the suburbs of Johannesburg. Ages 8-12.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from December 30, 1996
      The South African author who illuminated the struggles of apartheid in two previous novels for children (Journey to Jo'burg; Chain of Fire) is back with a powerful novel about the plight of a 12-year-old black boy who runs away from an abusive home and becomes a street child in the suburbs of Johannesburg. Sipho soon finds that the life of street children, or malunde, is grim-scrabbling a few coins, begging, sleeping under cardboard boxes and sniffing glue. It would have been easy for Naidoo to foreshadow all the troubles Sipho has, then preach about the immorality of the situation. Instead, she writes effortlessly from the boy's point of view, so that his confusion, eagerness and naive wishes unfold naturally. Naidoo's evident knowledge of her subject and her humane approach allow a rare and moving glimpse into the hidden world of the malunde, and Sipho's eventual rescue from the streets lends a complex note of optimism to an otherwise woeful story. Ages 8-12.

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  • Lexile® Measure:790
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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