Out of shadows

Description:

Robert Jacklin is thrown into the aftermath of war when his family moves from England to Zimbabwe in the 1980s, and when he is enrolled in a prestigious boarding school, he faces racism and violence and must make a difficult decision as a group of white boys decides to protest the country's new government. In 1983, at an elite boys' boarding school in Zimbabwe, thirteen-year-old English lad Robert Jacklin finds himself torn between his black roommate and the white bullies still bitter over losing power through the recent civil war.

subjects: Race relations,  Conduct of life,  Juvenile fiction,  Bullies,  British,  Fiction,  Bullying,  Boarding schools,  Schools,  History,  Private schools,  Political activists,  Children's fiction,  Conduct of life, fiction,  Race relations, fiction,  Bullies, fiction,  Schools, fiction,  Boarding schools, fiction,  Zimbabwe, fiction

Places: Zimbabwe

Times: 1980-