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Obenewa
Age Range: 6 – 10 years
Obenewa’s mother dies while giving birth to her. She is left with no one but Maa Kaedabi, her grandmother. A time comes when Obenewa leaves her village with an old friend of Maa Kaedabi. She is now in the big city, there is so much change around her. The big city can be a lonely place for a motherless young girl; it can also be a hub of opportunities for achieving one’s aspirations. What does the city hold for Obenewa?
₵25.00Obenewa
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Oko and the Dancing Baboon
Suitable for JHS students and children between 12 and 15 years.
Oko and the Dancing Baboon tells of the wonderful bond between Oko and his intelligent dancing pet baboon, Patapaa. The two are painfully separated when Oko’s unscrupulous brother- in-law takes the baboon away on tour for money. Overworked and maltreated, Patapaa is miraculously saved from death, but is still in danger. How does Oko cope with the problems of settling in a new school and Patapaa’s problems? How do the two friends eventually get to the attention of the head of state and become part of a children’s cultural ambassador troupe to tour Europe?
₵28.00Oko and the Dancing Baboon
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The Cockcrow: Short Stories, Drama and Poems
Great care has been taken in putting together this collection of short stories, poems, and a play for Junior High Schools in Ghana.
Each story, poem or play has been selected for a purpose, which is to educate and entertain. Readers will find in them characters, events and situations they can relate to, even as they learn about types of literature and their modes of appeal.
Above all, this collection is aimed at encouraging and sustaining the habit of reading from the Junior High School onward. In each story, poem or play, you will hear the cock crow to inform, warn and entertain in words imagined by the writers.
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Afua and the Mouse (Red Oak Young Readers’ Series)
Age Range: 6 – 8 years
The Red Oak Young Readers’ Series features engaging stories with captivating illustrations that appeals to even the most reluctant young readers. This Series is designed to enhance the creative abilities of children by stimulating their imagination. Using very simple and lively language, the Series builds the confidence of beginner readers and motivates them to develop their vocabulary. Parents of children in kindergarten will find that their children will ask for the stories in this series to be read to them over and again.
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The Kaya-Girl
2012 First Place Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature Finalist
“I’m Abena,” I said in Twi.
“I’m Faiza,” she said in a language I would soon find out was called Dagbanli.”
An accidental meeting in Accra’s bustling Makola market makes an impact that is to affect the destinies of two extraordinary young women. For Abena, the open-minded girl from a comfortable family, the meeting is an opportunity to learn about the culture of the other girl and to appreciate the dignity that we often fail to see in the lives of the underprivileged of our country. For Faiza, the eponymous Kaya girl, the encounter with the richer girl is to provide a joyful adventure in her otherwise harsh existence and provided the inspiration that will transform her life.
The Kaya-Girl is a wonderful story, told with warm humor, about two young and confident people from vastly different Ghanaian worlds.
₵38.00The Kaya-Girl
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Rattling in the Closet
Suitable for reading by children above age 9, teenagers and young adults
It’s election term in St Felice and there is a tight race for prefects’ positions. Fun-loving Mercy is set to form a winning team with her best buddy Perry. That’s the plan –until the “phen-aah-menal” Salvina springs into the picture. Suddenly, no one in St Felice is certain of anything anymore.
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?
₵45.00Rattling in the Closet
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Kwame Nkrumah: A Biography
Very few statesmen have attempted or achieved so much as Kwame Nkrumah, a leading activist and theoretician of PanAfricanism. His work lives on and continues to inspire Africans, people of African descent and progressive movements worldwide.
In this new biography, June Milne traces the life and work of Kwame Nkrumah from his birth in Nkroful in the western province of the Gold Coast (Ghana) to his death in Bucharest, Romania on 27 April, 1972. The book contains much new material, notably relating to years Nkrumah spent in Conakry, Guinea after the military coup in Accra on 24 February, 1966 which ended his government in Ghana. It adds to information in the author’s book Kwame Nkrumah, The Conakry Years, published in 1990.
For the first time in a biography of Nkrumah, information is provided about all the books written by him. The circumstances in which they were written are explained, their contents examined, appraisal made of their significance and continuing impact on political developments in Africa and the Diaspora.
This is an authentic moving account of the life and work of “The Greatest African” (the words inscribed on his coffin in Guinea), by an author well qualified to write about him.
₵450.00Kwame Nkrumah: A Biography
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1947-1957: The Story of Ghana’s Independence
“I never realized what a prolonged battle I would have with the politicians, chiefs and people of the Gold Coast in order to give them the independence for which they have been clamouring all these years. Now they are going to have it whether they like it or not” – Sir Charles Arden-Clarke (Governor of the Gold Coast, 1949-1957)
What would have influenced the above statement by the last Governor of the Gold Coast, which reveals the complicated, frustrating and tortuous trajectory of the last decade in the struggle for Ghana’s independence? This book, 1947-1957: The Story of Ghana’s Independence, not only answers this question but critically examines the roots of the nationalist movement and the role plays by several individuals, including Arden-Clarke himself and the various political organizations that led to the independence of the Gold Coast from British rule on March 6, 1957.
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LeGyanDary (Hardcover)
In July 2010, Asamoah Gyan had the chance to join football immortality – and missed it. The scars of that World Cup penalty will remain for years. Remarkably, it does not define him.
Instead, drawing strength from his difficult career beginnings, Gyan will go on to become a history-making Ghana captain – breaking record after record for club and country along the way.
Yet, the quest for greatness sees Gyan make some costly mistakes, which he recounts in sobering detail. He owns up to them, sharing how they affected his family and career, as well as lessons learned.
What was said in dressing rooms across his storied career? How did he handle the mysterious disappearance of his friend Castro and other scandals? What are his plans after football?
In this book, Gyan bares his soul. He seeks no sympathy; he simply wants his side of an often-one-sided story to be heard, introducing us to names, people and influences we did not know before.
LeGyanDary is not only for football fanatics. It is written to challenge those who fear their dreams, to empathize with the misunderstood, and to start a conversation about how we treat our icons – for good, and for bad.
₵225.00LeGyanDary (Hardcover)
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Akosua’s Gift
Age Range: 7 – 10 years
Original Ghanaian story by Angela Christian and retold by Kathy Knowles; illustrations by Edmund Opare
A “Notable Book” designation by the 2012 Children’s Africana Book Award jury.
Akosua learned to make clay pots by watching her mother. She decides to make a water pot to present as a gift to her sister on her wedding day.
₵57.00Akosua’s Gift
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The Shimmer In the Photo Album
The Hewale children make a mind-blowing discovery and are whipped 50 years into the past to solve a mystery that has broken their family up for decades. Porting back and forth across dimensions and timelines, solving missions large and small, can they live up to the expectations of this phenomenon?
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The President’s Son (Winmat Senior Readers)
The two rogues would like to reap where they have not sown. Will Tabi be able to impersonate the President’s son successfully? Will the sugarcoated words and grabbing hands be enough to get them to the land of milk and honey?
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Nature Stories: Crossing River Kulga & Other Stories
Age Range: 9 – 11 years
This is a collection of fun-to-read stories that focus on the environment. It teaches the relationship between man and nature and helps readers to appreciate nature better.
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Commentary on The Cockcrow: A Study Guide for Students
This commentary book is a students’ companion to The Cockcrow, which is the prescribed textbook for Metre studies in junior high schools. When students read the textbook thoroughly, this Commentary will then help them to understand, analyse, and explain what they read.
The Commentary is written according to the requirement of the syllabus. It is aimed at preparing students for the Literature-in-English component of the BECE Language paper. Students will find in this Commentary practical advice about studying towards the exams and how to read any written material for understanding and for pleasure.
This book will expose students to the fact that literature studies go beyond examinations. Literature helps us understand life and apply the lessons we learn from stones poems, and drama to everyday living.
Students are, therefore, urged to make up their minds to enjoy Literature. They should read The Cockcrow carefully and enjoy the storylines, the characters, the drama, the poems, the cultural backgrounds, the themes, and the lessons to be learnt from the stories.
The analysis, literary devices, and summaries of the short stories, poems, and play will enable students appreciate the content of this commentary book. The sample essay and objective questions will help in the personal studies and in group discussions.
Enjoy Literature!
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Little Sage Beginning to Read: Phonics + Key Words (Reinforced Phonics Reader #3A)
Age Range: 2 – 5 years
A group of blended phonics sounding words. We have put together in a creative way of repeating similar sounds. We have also used lots of key words that every reader needs to know how to identity and pronounce to be a successful reader.
Reinforced phonics reading helps children practise what they have learnt.
Practice reading increases confidence in children.
Keyword practice helps children identity and retain words for future use.
₵28.00