Book Descriptions
for Waiting for the Rain by Sheila Gordon
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A hard-hitting novel traces the relationship of two boys, one Black, the other white, living in contemporary South Africa. Gordon does an admirable job of showing how differing values and racial injustices pull Tengo and Frikkie further and further apart until they have little in common except a shared past. (Age 12 and older)
CCBC Choices 1987 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1987. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Chronicles nine years in the lives of two South African youths--one black, one white--as their friendship ends in a violent confrontation between student and soldier.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
