The Soccer Fence: A story of friendship, hope, and apartheid in South Africa Juvenile Fiction Family - Multigenerational African American & Black Science & Nature - Environment Egoff Children’s Literature Prize short-listed

Egoff Children’s Literature Prize short-listed

Kiese Laymon

a dazzling novel about a young girl who collects the missing pieces of her origin story from the family of legendary luchadores she’s never met

He's taking classes with his grandmother and helping to keep an eye on his great-uncle whose corrupted magic wreaked havoc on the family

The Soccer Fence: A story of friendship, hope, and apartheid in South Africa Juvenile Fiction Family - Multigenerational African American & Black Science & Nature - Environment Egoff Children’s Literature Prize short-listedIn a country struggling with acceptance, hope can come in many different forms. As a boy, Hector loved playing soccer in his small Johannesburg township. He dreamed of playing on a real pitch with the boys from another part of the city, but apartheid made that impossible. Then, in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and apartheid began to crumble. The march toward freedom in South Africa was a slow one, but when the beloved Bafana Bafana