{"id":94,"date":"2018-03-09T23:53:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T23:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2024-05-14T16:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:18:12","slug":"books-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/?page_id=94","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"\"\u00a0The Lion’s Whisper<\/strong><\/p>

Leo and David, both fifteen years old, are neighbors who are divided by more than just a wall.<\/p>

When David unexpectedly reaches out to him, Leo hesitantly accepts and David soon becomes a secret brother, helping Leo overcome a paralyzing\u00a0fear from his past. Leo embarks with David on a mission to root out the answer to a mystery that has tormented David for years. Their friendship is tested beyond reasonable limits as hatred and betrayal pitch first their families, and ultimately the boys themselves, against each other. Then a bloody military coup rips Leo’s world apart, and he has to find the courage he never had before\u2026 and an ally. But after so many years of bitterness, can Leo afford to forgive and trust his family’s enemy?<\/p>

Award:<\/strong>\u00a0Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature, 2018<\/p>

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Rattling in the Closet\"\"<\/strong><\/p>

It\u2019s election term in St Felice and there is a tight race for prefects\u2019 positions. Fun-loving Mercy is set to form a winning team with her best buddy Perry. That\u2019s the plan \u2013until the \u201cphen-aah-menal\u201d Salvina springs into the picture. Suddenly, no one in St Felice is certain of anything anymore.<\/p>

Who is this girl, Salvina, anyway? Can Mercy and her friends afford to watch her trample on their dreams? Torn between truth and lies, how far will Mercy go to protect her hopes, her best friend, and her own carefully kept secret?<\/p>

Award:\u00a0<\/strong>The Burt Award for Young Adult Literature 2016.<\/p>

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The\u00a0Dorm Challenge<\/strong><\/p>

One bad friend and one desperate friend.\u00a0<\/i>Mercy could change their lives.<\/i>\u00a0The problem is she doesn\u2019t know it.\u00a0<\/i>Mercy isn\u2019t going to embarrass herself by speaking in a school competition just so her House can win the Dorm Cup.<\/p>

No way!<\/p>

There are better things she could do\u2212\u00a0like hanging out with her ultra-cool buddy Perry.<\/p>

But when she is thrust into the\u00a0Dorm Challenge\u00a0<\/b>she discovers that the prize for speaking up is more precious than a trophy. And the prize for listening properly can mean more than anything in the world.<\/p>

Award:\u00a0<\/strong>The Burt Award for Young Adult Literature 2013.<\/p>

The Twelfth Heart\"\"<\/strong><\/p>

When Mercy came to her new school near Accra, she knew exactly the sort of friends she wanted to make: certainly, no-one who reminded her of the small town she had left behind – poor, ugly and dull. She did not realize that true\u00a0friendship comes from the heart and that the least likely of the twelve girls in her\u00a0dormitory would come to mean the most to them all.<\/p>

Anyone who has been to a boarding school will identify with the characters in the story until its poignant end.<\/p>

Award:\u00a0<\/strong>The Burt Award for Young Adult Literature 2010.<\/p>

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A Saint in Brown Sandals<\/strong><\/p>

Eleven-year-old Rabi thinks it would be wonderful to be like her classmate Maybelline – rich, pretty and popular with everyone in the school. As her school\u2019s big event on television draws closer, Rabi realizes she has only one chance to be a star. Where will she shine best? Will it be if she follows in Maybelline\u2019s dainty footsteps? Or will it be if she dares to run along as herself?<\/p>

Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Macmillan Writer’s Prize for Africa 2006.<\/p>

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Any of the Books can be Purchased at<\/strong>:<\/p>

Vidya’s Bookshop, Osu<\/div>
EPP Bookshop<\/div>
Kingdom Bookshop, University of Ghana, Legon<\/div>
Sytris Bookshop, East Legon<\/div>
BookNook (nationwide delivery)<\/div>
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For bulk purchases please WhatsApp\/call\/SMS +233244239624<\/strong><\/div>
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Flying up the Mountain In\u00a0Flying Up the Mountain, our main character \u2013 twelve-year-old Ato \u2013 and his two best friends have won a chance to visit Nnoma, a beautiful private bird island in Ghana, West Africa. They join dozens of other selected children on this much-longed-for trip. Like all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}