The Soccer Fence
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Call Number: J Fiction / Bildner, Phil
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Includes historical note, sources, and timeline of apartheid.
Each time Hector watches white boys playing soccer in Johannesburg, South Africa, he dreams of playing on a real pitch one day and after the fall of apartheid, when he sees the 1996 African Cup of Nations team, he knows that his dream can come true.
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pretty good submitted by Berryak on August 2, 2014, 7:58am It was pretty good.I didn't thick bafa bafa could win!
Good submitted by kathiravan on August 3, 2017, 6:19pm A beautifully illustrated book with a hopeful story.
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780399247903
0399247904
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Watson, Jesse Joshua.
SUBJECTS
Soccer -- Fiction.
Apartheid -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Black People -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Johannesburg (South Africa) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Fiction.
South Africa -- History -- 1994- -- Fiction.