We are the young people,We will not be broken!We demand freedomAnd say"e;Away with slaveryIn our land of Africa!"e;For almost fifty years apartheid forced the young people of South Africa to live apart as Blacks, Whites, Indians, and "e;Coloreds."e; 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 last half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, and features fictional characters caught up in very real events. Included is a Timeline Across Apartheid, which recounts some of the restrictive laws passed during this era, the events leading up to South Africa's first free democratic elections, and the establishment of a new "e;rainbow government"e; that leads the country today.A Junior Library Guild Selection