• 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?

  • Once Upon a Time in Ghana – Volume I

    Once Upon a Time in Ghana was named a Children’s Africana Book Award Best Book 2014.

    Recorded on location in the Volta Region in Ghana in 2006-07, these stories are the result of collaboration between Anna Cottrell and Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah. Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah translated the Ewe stories into English and Anna Cottrell has retold them in contemporary English for the wider European market. This edition presents the 24 stories in their original form for the Ghanaian market.

  • The Lost Princess

    Suitable for JHS students and children between 12 and 15 years

    Bakoma: Abandoned in a cave as a baby with obscure origins but found by some women. Bakoma grows from a nobody in the palace of Nton, with the kind of beauty kings and princes would die for. She falls in love the heir apparent to the throne, Prince Gyakari, a man she couldn’t have. This was a taboo and yet she couldn’t help herself. Prince Gyakari: Heir apparent to the Nton throne, tall, handsome, a proven warrior and backed by an immense wealth. He is determined to have Bakoma as his wife even through tradition forbids him to marry a commoner. His inheritance is at stake and though his head warns him to desist, his heart would not let him go. Will these two star crossed lovers ever overcome the obstacle of tradition and be together?

  • Alake the Elephant

    This is a series of stories about the adventures of a young elephant that gets in and out of trouble while living in a West African forest. Alake takes readers on a tour of the tropical forest; in adventures with giraffes, monkeys, crocodiles, lions, and his own family of elephants. This book has a lot of moral lessons for young readers.

  • Uncle Blanko’s Chair

    Age Range: 9 – 12 years

    The story of Uncle Blanko’s Chair takes the reader through a series of dramatic episodes involving young Kobi and the “magic chair” of his good Uncle Blanko. The disappearance of the chair and the frantic search for it help the different people of Sogawe to know and appreciate each other better.

  • The Adventures of the Asuogya Gang

    Suitable for JHS students and children between 12 and 15 years

    Kwame Danso was a typical African village boy who could neither read nor write, but he was a very intelligent boy indeed.

    He tried very hard to become a member of The Asuogya Gang but failed. He however got to know some of the secrets of the gang, thus getting himself into some uncomfortable and dangerous situations…

  • Adventures of Elizabeth Sam

    How does Elizabeth Araba Sam, an ordinary 12 year-old find herself in the US helping to deflate someone’s car tyres while holidaying there? Find out how Elizabeth and her brothers, Albert and Benjamin, and their friends manage to get into various adventures including a clandestine mango-picking expedition, a fearsome encounter with a neighbour’s dog and Albert’s first driving experience, despite having very strict parents. Read about the friendship with Andrea, her American pen pal, and how their friendship changes the lives of both families in unexpected ways.

  • A Saint in Brown Sandals

    Age Range: 8 and 11 years

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

  • Rattling in the Closet

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    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?

  • The Twelfth Heart

    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 realise that true friendship comes from the heart, and that the least likely of the twelve girls in her dormitory would come to mean the most to them all.

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

  • The Dorm Challenge

    Age Range: 9 years and above

    One bad friend and one desperate friend.

    Mercy could change their lives.

    The problem is she doesn’t know it.

    Mercy isn’t going to embarrass herself by speaking in a school competition just so her House can win the Dorm Cup.

    No way!

    There are better things she could do− like hanging out with her ultra-cool buddy Perry.

    But when she is thrust into the Dorm Challenge 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.

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