Junior African writers series. Level 2

Andy, an African-American boy living in Nigeria with his father, is invited to a village masquerade where he and his friend Ihanyi learn a lesson from the spirit Akataka.

On the last day of the holidays, Boni, Lorato, and Kagiso decide to go and see for themselves if a dangerous python really lives at the Magic Pool.

Kagiso's mother is dead, he has an angry father, a foolish brother, and a mad uncle, so he plans an escape.

When Kamau cannot afford to pay his school fees, he finds work tending Mr. Fletcher's sheep, which are being killed by a hungry lion.

After her father's death during the civil war in Nigeria, Ola doesn't know how her family will manage. Then they find the money her father hid and are able to rebuild their lives.