• Ossie’s Dream

    2014 Second Place Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature

    Ossie and his brother Nana Yaw become destitute when tragedy strikes their family. Ossie refuses to work as a farm labourer and runs away. Six-year-old Nana Yaw is taken away to live as a househelp in the city. Later, Ossie finds himself on the streets of Accra. He strives to fulfill a promise he made long ago against the odds.

    Ossie’s Dream

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  • Ayisha

    Ayisha is washing bowls in the compound house. She hears the conversation between her father and mother. Mother wants Ayisha to attend school, but Father says “No”. Will the father change his mind? Will Ayisha go to school?

    Ayisha

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  • The Heritage: A Story to Remember

    Sosu and his mates are put to test by their teacher, to search for the meaning of national pledge and national anthem.

    This story has something to tell every boy or girl, man or woman, whose lives among people who value their heritage.

  • To Kiss A Girl

    What this book is not:

    This book is not an instruction manual on how to kiss a girl. If that‛s the reason you picked this book up, please put it down now and move on to your next book.

    What this book is:

    This book is about how a teenage girl deals with death and dying.

    Why do bad things happen to good people? In the aftermath of her older sister’s death, Gyikua Ampofo loses faith in everything she ever believed in—God, a mother’s love, school and friends. But then she meets Chidi Anukwe and as their friendship grows, she learns to trust again.

    To Kiss A Girl

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  • Mutilated

    Barbara Aseke, a ten-year-old primary school pupil, is brutally circumcised and dies from haemorrhage. Her needless death outrages the sensibilities of many, including Dr. Blankson who is unable to save her life. When, in spite of the tragedy, Dr. Blankson’s wife Sarah, wilfully submits herself and undergoes genital mutilation, she reveals the ethnic and cultural diversity that tears their marriage apart. Dutch missionary, Father Willem van Ruisdeal, concerned organisations, Dr. Yvonne Alhassan, Dr. Blankson and even a subdued Sarah, work tirelessly together to eradicate the harmful and obnoxious traditional practice, particularly in the north of Ghana.

    The novel tells in lurid details the harrowing experiences and the suffering of millions of girls and women in Africa and thousands of African immigrants in the Western World.

    Mutilated

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  • First Term Surprises (Senior High School Days #1)

    Kukua can’t believe what she sees when she goes to the internet café to check her BECE results. Aggregate 14? What happened to the Ten Ones she worked hard for?

    And when the posting arrive and she realizes she’s been sent to her third-choice school, she feels completely devastated. Where is this Eternity Senior High School, anyway?

    But when courage overrides frustration, Kukua packs reluctantly and arrives at Eternity, the school on the hill along the beach road.

    It is here that a series of surprises welcome her throughout the first term.

    The biggest surprise of all is Samira, the girl Kukua meets who has a bigger-than-life story. Can a baby be thrown away at birth and still manage to grow up and enter senior high school?

    Surely, first term in the senior high school is full of surprises!

     

  • Second Term Expectations (Senior High School Days #2)

    In the second term, Kukua and her mates run into several experiences that blow their minds away. Did you ever hear about a Virgins’ Club? And why is Samira about to be sent home at the beginning of term?

    Enter Miss Kudjo’s Literature class for excitement. But don’t mess with Mr. Bayo, the senior housemaster of Sabanna. Ask the three students why Mr. Bayo sees to it that they are suspended for one term.

    Kukua never thougt that examination fever can cause her to do what she does to make Mr. Binka punish her severely.

    Second term at Eternity Senior High School turns out to be highly eventful, with lots of expectations to pursue.

  • Long Vacation Encounters (Senior High School Days #4)

    When the long vacation is over and Kukua and Samira return to school, guess what they encounter on the Headmaster’s Honours’ List?

    Yet Kukua is careful in taking delight in this academic achievement. After all, “academic success is not an end in itself but a means to an end,” she recalls Grandma writing in one of her letters.

  • Entertainment Night (Senior High School Days #5)

    If the entertainment prefect thinks his idea of amusement will please every student, he is sadly mistaken.

    Asamoah doesn’t see any amusement in what the prefect has in mind, despite the loud publicity of the coming event. To him real entertainment must be vigorous, shake the bones, and draw sweat – not this boring thing everybody is talking about.

    So while the other students are enjoying themselves, Asamoah sneaks out of campus to the Beach Front in a wild quest for proper amusement.

    But, if what goes on at the Bach Front is so great, why does Asamoah run back to school so fast? And what is his picture doing on the front page of the newspaper?

    By the time Asamoah discovers that the school entertainment is not bad after all, it is too late for him to undo what has been done.

  • The Step-Monster

    Everyone knows stepmothers are bad, wicked and just plain evil. Buerki Puplampu cannot believe that her widowed father is getting remarried when her mother has not even been dead for long! She just knows that Naadu Nartey is wrong for her father. It isn’t even because Naadu is bigger than a hippo or because she laughs like a cow or has hair on her face and chest like a cavewoman. She just knows. Some people call that feeling intuition, some call it superstition, soem even say it’s a gift. Call it what you want but Buerki’s gut feelings have never failed her. She vows to do everything in her power to save her younger brother and herself from the fate she knows is awaiting them. They will not be maltreated or abused by this new woman. She will make sure of it.

  • 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.

  • The Lawyer Who Bungled His Life

    The Lawyer Who Bungled His Life is a novel revealing the lasting challenges that young people face within today’s multicultural society. With humour and imagination, Asare Konadu presents the story of a young man whose desire for a new identity entangles himself in a web of frustration and dejection.

    The events of the hero’s struggles are rendered realistically.

  • The Wizard of Asamang

    In The Wizard of Asamang, Asare Konadu presents a lasting picture of Ghanian society in the rural area welded together by love, humored innocence and gaiety. The strange events and places in the hero’s young mind are recorded realistically combining inventive imagination with technical sills.
  • The ‘Coup’ Makers

    Engaging, moving, and very effective, this is the diary of a thirty seven year old widow whose record of the coups through thirty years of independence remains as fresh and immediate as when the author first experienced them. Usually frank, it represents a vivid and convincing picture of the day to day suffering of the people in coups and recaptures the grim atmosphere of the hard and bitter struggle.
  • The Return of the Falcon

    Drobonso stands at the crossroads. The paramountcy and the chief priest, custodian of the traditional and cultural customs of the state are entangled.

    The emerging Christian churches misconstrue the reasons for enactment and consolidation of these ancestral relics.

    In the ensuing struggle, the writer presents an exposition on the rather “Primitive” values of our tradition and the effect of modernization on our society.

    The narrator explores memories and engages the reader in dialogue.

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