Sobering accounts, though fictional, paint ugly pictures of hatred, injustice, and disrespect for humanity. Hope glimmers, though faintly, with each successive tale as time passes and courage grows and perseverance becomes the dominating color in this painfully segregated nation. Extremely powerful and moving.

We are the young people, We will not be broken!

For almost fifty years, apartheid forced the young people of South Africa to live apart as Blacks, Whites, Indians, and "Coloreds." This unique and dramatic collection of stories—by native South African and Carnegie Medalist Beverley Naidoo—is about young people's choices in a beautiful country made ugly by injustice. Each story is set in a different decade during the turbulent years from 1948 to 2000, and portrays powerful fictional characters who are caught up in very real and often disturbing events.