The Hidden StarEleven-year-old Nolitye's granny used to say: if you mess with a woman, you mess with a stone. When Nolitye finds a magical stone on the dusty streets of Phola, her granny's words take on a new meaning. Along with her two friend - the somewhat pampered Bheki, and Four Eyes, a reformed member of the Spoilers gang led by Rotten Nellie - Nolitye puts the powers of the stone to good use: for the first time the threesome can stand up to the Spoilers; Nolitye can save the life of Rex, the leader of a pack of talking township mutts; and dare to look scary MaMtonga with her living brown-and-green snake necklace in the eye. But soon Nolitye finds out that the purplish-blue magic stone is but five stones needed to put right things that started to go wrong the day her father died in a mining accident when she was five years old. Or so she was told by her mother... By merging a cast of characters straight out of African myth folklore with everyday township life, K. Sello Duiker created a magical world and a truly wondrous quest, a timeless tale that will appeal to an ageless audience. |
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Contents
THREE Strange powers | |
FOUR Fatcakes and | |
FIVE The challenge | |
SIX The night prowlers | |
SEVEN The duel | |
EIGHT A strange dream | |
NINE Fire | |
TEN The test | |
ELEVEN A dog called Mister | |
TWELVE A pleasant surprise | |
THIRTEEN The trickster | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Hidden Star |
| Author | K. Sello Duiker |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House South Africa, 2011 |
| ISBN | 141520375X, 9781415203750 |
| Length | 234 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Fantasy / General Fiction / General |
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