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Diamond boy /

"When Patson's family moves to [the] Marange region of Zimbabwe, he begins working in the mines, searching for blood diamonds, until government soldiers arrive and Patson is forced to journey to South Africa in search of his missing sister and a better life"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Williams, Michael, 1962- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Survival > Juvenile fiction. Diamond mines and mining > Juvenile fiction. Shona (African people) > Juvenile fiction. Blacks > Zimbabwe > Juvenile fiction. Zimbabwe > Juvenile fiction. Survival > Fiction. Diamond mines and mining > Fiction. Shona (African people) > Fiction. Blacks > Zimbabwe > Fiction. Zimbabwe > Fiction. Blacks. Diamond mines and mining. Shona (African people) Survival. Zimbabwe. Fiction. Juvenile works.

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