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  • Light A Candle/Tumaini Pasipo Na Tumaini (Bilingual English/Swahili)

Light A Candle/Tumaini Pasipo Na Tumaini
(Bilingual English/Swahili)

Illustrator
Eva Campbell
Publication Date
October 01, 2019
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
Swahili
Format
Picture Book
Light A Candle/Tumaini Pasipo Na Tumaini (Bilingual English/Swahili)

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Description

Co-written by Eric Walters and Godfrey Nkongolo, Light a Candle weaves non-fiction with fiction to tell the story of a boy coming of age in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

The son of the village's chief climbs the mountain against his father's wishes to fulfill a request of the country's first leader, Julius Nyerere, to light a candle on the top of the mountain and unify the mainland of Tanganyika and the islands of Zanzibar as one country, the United Republic of Tanzania.

Publication date
October 01, 2019
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781459817005
Lexile Measure
560
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
BISAC categories
JUV005000 - Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men
JUV039020 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence
JUV016010 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Africa
JUV030010 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Africa
Library of Congress categories
Picture books
Historical fiction
Kilimanjaro, Mount (Tanzania)
Chaga (African people)

Kirkus

The importance of freedom in Tanzania comes through clearly.