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OUT OF BOUNDS: SEVEN STORIES OF CONFLICT AND HOPE
. Copyright © 2001 by Beverley Naidoo. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

“The Dare” was previously published as “Poinsettias” in
Global Tales
by Longman, © 1997 by Beverley Naidoo

“The Typewriter” was first published in
Knockout Short Stories
by Longman, © 1998 by Beverley Naidoo

“The Gun” was first published in
That’ll Be the Day
by Bell & Hyman, © 1998 by Beverley Naidoo

“The Playground” was first published in
Just in Time
by Puffin, © 1999 by Beverley Naidoo

“The Noose,” “One Day, Lily, One Day,” and “Out of Bounds” © 2001 by Beverley Naidoo

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Naidoo, Beverley

Out of Bounds: seven stories of conflict and hope / by Beverley Naidoo

p. cm.

Summary: Seven stories, spanning the time period from 1948 to 2000, chronicle the experiences of young people from different races and ethnic groups as they try to cope with the restrictions placed on their lives by South Africa’s apartheid laws.

ISBN 978-0-06-050801-2 (pbk.)

1. Apartheid—Juvenile fiction. 2. Children’s stories, South African (English)[1. Apartheid—Fiction. 2. Race relations—Fiction. 3. South Africa—Fiction. 4. Short stories.] I. Title.

PZ7.N1384Ou 2003          2002068901

[Fic]—dc21          CIP

AC

EPub Edition © February 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200788-9

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