The Sky High Road - Softcover

Howard, Moses L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1939423309 ISBN 13: 9781939423306

Publisher: Jugum Press, 2015

Synopsis

A footballer faces crushing odds - against the Lord’s Liberation Army!How to keep hope kindled for a brighter future?Jason, a teenage soccer player in a Ugandan village, is worried about his O-levels and grieving his father’s death from AIDS. His grandmother sends Jason and his sister Katura on a journey to her home village. That unwanted chore turns to catastrophe when they are enslaved as child-soldiers in the Lord’s Liberation Army. Jason and Katura battle their insane captors, who inflict hideous harm on the children they kidnap. Escaping, Jason and Katura encounter both helpers and new dangers on the journey home. Can they bring home more than a solar lantern for their grandmother, carrying new light for their future in Uganda?The Sky High Road is a coming-of-age story for readers in grades 7–12, young adults, and all readers interested in the coming-of-age challenges for educated adolescents in 21st century African villages.

About this title

About the Author:

Moses Leon Howard is an American writer and educator who has been writing for children and adults for fifty years. A retired dean of a community college, biology teacher, assistant high school principal, and counselor/ mentor for students at risk, he lives in Tacoma, Washington. Mr. Howard has written four novels, three children’s books, and numerous short stories, and has completed a historic novel about Nzinga Mbande, a woman who ruled for forty years in seventeenth century Angola. In addition to his career as an educator in the U.S., Mr. Howard served as a Fulbright Fellow in Africa and spent ten years training medical technologists and preparing secondary school teachers in Kampala, Uganda.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jugum Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1939423309
• ISBN 13: 9781939423306
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198