Chain of Fire [Hardcover]

Beverley Naidoo (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 242 pages
• Publisher: Demco Media (January 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0606025510
• ISBN-13: 978-0606025515
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 7th Graders Review, March 10, 1998

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Norma Glock (Columbus, MT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chain of Fire (Paperback)

My book was okay. It wasn't the greatest book I've ever read. There wasn't alot of action or any suspense. The book was a good book because the people fought back against a government that didn't care about anybody or anything. The people wouldn't let the government ruin their hope. Like when the govenment smashed their church to the ground the people just started to rebuild it right after they got done smashing it to the ground. They never gave up hope about defeating the government even when they took people and beat them unitl they heard what they wanted to hear.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Startling Lack of Social Justice, December 20, 2007

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Dr. W. C. kasten "Co-Author, LIVING LITERATURE" (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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I first discovered the work of Beverly Naidoo while I was traveling in South Africa and was pleased to find her books increasingly available here. She writes starkly and appropriately for the adolescent about the days of South Africa Apartheid. CHAIN OF FIRE deals with the displacement of people in Cape Town when developers wanted the desirable land for "better" uses than it was being used doe poorer people's homes.

I have had some email conversations with Ms. Naidoo and have her profiled in my co-authored Childrens' Literature text LIVING LITERATURE (Kasten, Kristo, & McClure, 2005, Prentice-Hall) so I can add a personal note that Ms. Naidoo is a White South African married to a Black South African and because of that, she was exiled from her home country during the Apartheid years (inter-marriage was illegal). She maintains a home in the U.K. but continues to visit South African often and continues to tell its stories of struggle and change brilliantly.
Wendy C. Kasten, Ph.D.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Need Good Books? Read This..., February 8, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Chain of Fire (Paperback)

Chain of Fire, written by Beverly Naidoo, is a book of the past, present and hopefully not the future. The villagers of Bophelong are forced to move to a place unknown to them, and they are forced to move even if they don't want to move. Naledi is just a 13 year old girl that is afraid yet strong. Taolo, a young boy with a father that has been to jail, comes along as a freedom fighter and tries to help the villagers there. Taolo and Naledi fight this struggle with a fight that is like a chain of fire, building and strengthening. The illustrations, by Eric Velasquez, are placed a little off, yet they completely enhance the book. The reader will experience the emotions of sadness, fear, strength and will have a sense of what true power and cruelty really are.