Sanfoka Reads

Great Chapter Books!

* = CABA Winners

Elementary

• Achebe, Chinua. Chike and the River. New York: Anchor Books, 1966, 2011.
• Arkhurst, Joyce Cooper. Adventures of Spider. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1992.
• Asare, Meshack. The Canoe’s Story. Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers/World Reader, 2010.
• Asare, Meshack. Cross Drums. East Lansing / Legon, Ghana: Michigan State (dist.) Sub-Saharan Pub., 2008.
• Atinuke. Anna Hibiscus (Book 1). Tulsa, OK: Kane Miller, 2010.
• Atinuke; Lauren Tobias (illus.) Go Well Anna Hibiscus. London: Walker Books, 2014
• Atinuke. Good Luck Anna Hibiscus (Book 3). London / Tulsa: Kane Miller, 2011.
• Atinuke. Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus! (Book 4). Tulsa, OK: Kane Miller, 2011.
• Atinuke. Hooray for Anna Hibiscus! (Book 2). Tulsa, OK: Kane Miller, 2010.
• Atinuke; Lauren Tobias (illus.) Love from Anna Hibiscus. London: Walker Books, 2015
• Atinuke. The No. 1 Car Spotter (Book 1). Tulsa, OK: Kane Miller, 2011.
• Atinuke. The No 1 Car Spotter and the Firebird (Book 2). Tulsa: Kane Miller, 2012.
• Badoe, Adwoa.  The Pot of Wisdom. Groundwood Books , 2008.
• Dosekun, Simidele. Beem Explores Africa. Lagos, Nigeria: Kachifo and Worldreader / Amazon Digital Services, 2012.
• Meddour, Wendy. A Hen in the Wardrobe. London: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2012.
• Smith, Alexander McCall. The Great Cake Mystery : Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case. New York: Anchor Books, 2012.
• Smith, Alexander McCall.The Mystery of Meerkat Hill : a Precious Ramotswe Mystery for Young Readers . New York: Anchor Books / Random House, 2013.
• Soper, Dorothy Brown, We are Akan, Our Kingdom in the Rainforest, Ghana 1807. Luminare, 2020.
• Croall, Marie P. Ray Lago and Craig Hamilton. Marwe : Into the Land of the Dead : an East African Legend. Minneapolis, MN: Graphic Universe, 2009.

Upper Elementary and Middle School

• Adeyemi Tomi. Children of Blood and Bone. Henry Holt, 2018
• *Aubin, Henry T. Rise of the Golden Cobra. Toronto, ON Canada: Annick Press, 2007.
• *Cottrell, Anna, Agbotadua Kumassah, Kwabena Poku (illus.);Once Upon a Time in Ghana : Traditional Ewe stories retold in English. Accra , Ghana: Afram / African Books Collective (dist.), 2013
• Diakité, Baba Wagué. A Gift from Childhood : Memories of an African Boyhood. Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2010.
• *Edinger, Monica; Byrd, Robert (illus.) Africa Is My Home : A Child of the Amistad . Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2013.
• *Ellis, Deborah.The Heaven Shop. Allston, MA: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2004.
• Emecheta, Buchi. Moonlight Bride.  Braziller, 1983.
• Equiano, Olaudah and Ann Cameron (adapted by). The Kidnapped Prince : The Life of Olaudah Equiano. New York: Knopf, 1995.
• Fontes, Ron and Justine and Sandy Carruthers. Sunjata , Warrior King of Mali. Minneapolis: Lerner, 2008.
• *Kent,Trilby. Stones for My Father. Toronto, Ont.: Tundra Books, 2011.
• *Kessler, Cristina. Trouble in Timbuktu. New York, NY : Philomel Books, 2009.
• Kojo, K.P. The Parade: A Stampede of Stories About Ananse, the Trickster Spider. London: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2011.
• Kamkwamba, William and Mealer, Bryan. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. New York: Dial Book for Young Readers, 2015.
• Laird, Elizabeth. Garbage King.  Barron’s, 2003.
• Laird, Elizabeth. The Ogress and the Snake : and Other Stories from Somalia. London: Frances Lincoln , 2009.
• Mama, Riouf. Why Monkeys Live in Trees. Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 2006.
• Marston, Elsa. Ugly Goddess. Chicago, IL: Carus Publishing / Cricket Magazine, 2002.
• Mead, Alice . Year of No Rain. New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux , 2003.
• Michael, Jan. City Boy. Boston: Clarion Books, 2009.
• Mhlophe, Gcina. African Tales , One World, One Planet. Cambridge, MA: Barefoot Books, 2009.
• *Mwangi, Meja. The Mzungu Boy. Berkeley: Groundwood / Publishers Group West (dist.), 2005.
• *Naidoo, Beverley. Burn My Heart. New York, NY : HarperCollins / Amistad, 2009.
• Naidoo, Beverly. Journey to Jo’burg.  Lippincott, 1985.
• Naidoo, Beverley. The Other Side of the Truth. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
• *Naidoo, Beverley. Out of Bounds. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
• *Naidoo, Beverely; Piet Grobler (illus.) Who is King? Ten Magical Stories from Africa. London: Frances Lincoln, 2015. 
• Paye, Won-Ldy and Margaret H. Lippert. Why Leopard Has Spots : Dan Stories from Liberia.Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Books, 1998.
• *Pinkney, Andrea; Shane W. Evans (illus.) The Red Pencil.Little Brown and Company, 2014
• Riordan, Rick. The Red Pyramid. New York: Hyperion Books, 2010.
• Riordan, Rick and Orpheus Collar. The Red Pyramid : The Graphic Novel.  Hyperion / Disney, 2012.
• Riordan, Rick. The Serpent’s Shadow. New York, NY: Disney / Hyperion, 2012.
• Riordan, Rick. The Throne of Fire. New York, NY: Hyperion Books for Children, 2011.
• Rundell, Katherine. Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms. Simon & Schuster, 2014.
• Smith, Ronald. Black Panther, the Young Prince. Marvel, 2018.
• *Sullivan, Tara. Bitter Side of Sweet G.P. Putnam, 2016.
• *Wein, Elizabeth; Black Dove, White Raven.Los Angeles CA: Disney-Hyperion, 2015.
• Wulf, Linda Press. The Night of the Burning : Devorah’s Story. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2006.
• Zephaniah, Benjamin. Refugee Boy. New York: Bloomsbury Children’s Books /St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

Upper Middle and High School

• *Alexander, Kwame.  Solo. Grand Rapids, Blink. 2017.
• Anderson, Natalie.  Let’s Go Swimming on Doomsday, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2019
• *Badoe, Adwoa. Aluta. Walker Books / Kane Miller, 2016.
• *Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.
• Bedford, Semi. Yoruba Girl Dancing. New York: Viking Penguin, 1991.
• Coman, Carolyn. Many Stones. Asheville, NC: Front St., 2000
• Conrad, David. Empires of Medieval West Africa : Ghana, Mali, Songhay. New York: Facts on File, 2005
• Cross, Gillian. Where I Belong. New York, NY: Holiday House, 2011.
• Daud, Somaiya. Mirage. Flatiron, 2018.
• Dunn, Patricia; Rebels by Accident. : Alikai Press, 2014.
• Davies, Stephen. Outlaw. New York, NY: Clarion Books, 2011.
• Draper, Sharon. Copper Sun. Simon and Schuster / Atheneum, 2006.
• *Equal Education. Amagama Enkululeko! Words for Freedom: Writing Life Under Apartheid. South Africa: Cover2Cover, 2016.
• Eyeson, Abena. Looking Up, A Family Drama. Abena Eyeson, 2019.
• Flake,Sharon. The Skin I’m In. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2007.
• *Getz, Trevor R.; Clarke, Liz (illus.) Abina and the Important Men : A Graphic History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
• Hammond, Brenda; Cape town — a novel.Great Plains, 2012.
• *Henderson, Leah. One Shadow on the Wall. New York, Farrar, 2017.
• *Herbstein, Manu; The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti’s Eye. Accra: Techmate, 2016.
• Herbstein, Manu. Akosua and Osman. Accra. Techmate, 2017.
• *Hutton, Kelly. Soldier Boy. New York. Farrar, 2017.
• Kamara, Mariatu with Susan McClelland. The Bite of the Mango. Ontario: Annick Press, 2008
• Kamkwamba, William and Mealer, Bryan . The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind : Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2009.
• Lake, Nick. Hostage Three.  Bloomsbury, 2013.
• Meyer, Carolyn. Cleopatra Confesses. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
• Mlanzeli, Zimkhitha; Blood Ties (Harmony High Series). South Africa: Cover2Cover, 2014.
• Mussi, Sarah. The Door of No Return. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2008.
• *Naidoo, Beverly. Chain of Fire.  Lippincott / Harper Collins, 1990.
• Naidoo, Beverley. Other Side of the Truth. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
• *Naidoo, Beverley. Out of Bounds. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
• Nanji, Shenaaz . Child of Dandelions. Asheville NC: Front Street Books, 2008.
• Ngcaba, Connie Manse. May I Have This Dance. South Africa: Cover2Cover Books, 2015.
• *Nelson Mandela Foundation; Umlando Wezithombe (illus.) Nelson Mandela : The Authorized Comic Book. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.
• Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia.  Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree. Katherine Tegen Books/Harper Collins, 2019.
• *Okorafor, Nnedi. Akata Warrior. New York: Viking, 2017.
• *Raina, Arushi. When Morning Comes. Vancouver, Tradewinds, 2017.
• *Robert, Na’ima B. Far From Home. London: Frances Lincoln, 2012.
• Stewart, Elizabeth, Blue Gold. Annick Press, 2014.
• Tadjo, Veronique (editor). Chasing the Sun : Stories from Africa .London: A & C Black Publishers Ltd , 2008.
• *Tadjo, Veronique. Talking Drums: A Selection of Poems from Africa South of the Sahara. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.
• Temple, Frances Nolting. Beduins’ Gazelle. New York: Orchard Books, 1996.
• Wein, Elizabeth. Black Dove, White Raven. Hyperion, 2015.
• Wulf, Linda Press. The Night of the Burning. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2006.
• Zoboi, Ibi. Pride. Balzer & Bray, 2018.

Mature Teens & Adults

• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah : a Novel. : Knopf, 2013.
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun. New York: Anchor , 2003.
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Purple Hibiscus. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2003.
• Abouet, Margaret and Oubrerie, Clement (illus.). Aya . Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux , 2007
• Ba, Mariama; So Long a Letter. Heinemann, 1981.
• Badoe, Adwoa. Between Sisters. Toronto: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press, 2010.
• Banda-Aaku, Ellen. Patchwork. Johannesburg: Penguin Books, 2011.
• Cooper, Helene. The House at Sugar Beach : In Search of a Lost African Childhood . New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
• Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions. Seattle: Seal Press, 1988.
• Emecheta, Buchi. The Slave Girl. George Braziller, 1980.
  
• Fugard, Athol. Master Harold … and the Boys. Knopf, 1982.
• Githiora, Wambui. Wanjira.  Pennington Press, 2007.
• Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing. Knopf, 2016.
• Herbstein, Manu. Brave Music of a Distant Drum. : Red Deer Press, 2011.
• Huchu, Tendai; The Hairdresser of Harare. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press, 2010.
• Ile, Jowhor.  And After Many Days. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2016.
• Kamkwamba, William and Mealer, Bryan.  The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind : Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2009.
• Magona, Sindiwe. Mother to Mother. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
• Mahama, John Dramani.  My First Coup d’Etat and Other True Stories from The Lost Decades of Africa . : Bloomsbury, 2012.
• Malepe, Lesego. Matters of Life and Death. Columbus, MS: Black Coral / Genesis Press, 2005.
  
• Maraire, Nozipo. Zenzele : A Letter for my Daughter. New York: Crown, 1996.
• Mbue, Imbolo. Behold the Dreamers.  Random House, 2017.
• Ndibe,Okey; Foreign Gods, Inc. Soho, 2014
• Niane, D.T. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali. Dearborn Trade, 1960.
• Oyeyemi, Helen. Icarus Girl: A Novel. New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2005.
• Selasi, Taiye. Ghana Must Go. New York: Penguin, 2013.
• Wamariya, Clemantine and Elizabeth Wein. The Girl Who Smiled Beads, a Story of War and What Comes After. Crown, 2018.