No Tigers in Africa

Norman Silver. Puffin Books, $3.99 (144pp) ISBN 978-0-14-036935-9

``An honest, hard-hitting first-person narrative,'' PW said in a starred review of this affecting story about a 15-year-old South African boy's difficult adjustment to his new English home. Ages 12-up. (Aug.)

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