JAWS Reader Level 1: The Madman on the Baobab Tree

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The Junior African Writers Series is designed to provide interesting and varied African stories for both pleasure and study. The stories are graded into five levels of language difficulty. Level 1 is for readers who have studied English for 3 to 4 years. This story is a poem set in Zambia. A girl wants to visit her grandmother in the country, but her mother says no. Then a madman in a baobab tree changes her mother's mind.

Product Code: B/TMB
Author(s): P Ngenda Wa Liywalii
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Heinemann (Junior African Writers Series)
ISBN: 9780435891282
Year: 2003
Pages: 30