Synopsis
At just ten years old, Julie leaves her close-knit loving family in the city for a country boarding school in Swaziland to join her brother, Seth.
Julie's adventures offer an insight into life at a harsh, food-rationed, religious boarding school of the fifities. This school, set in the glorious African country-side, includes all the sports, horse-riding, piano lessons, performing arts, and high level of education that are possible to prepare a child for entrance to a British university.
Readers will recognize their feelings of alientation, loneliness, homesickness and being bullied, The solving of Julie's problem involves three different iconic heroes; a priest who fights Apartheid, a Sangoma witchdoctor, and a survivor from the Holocaust.
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About the Author
Julie's story is based on true events of the author: Claudia Donaldson-Selby. She was the little girl in this Boarding School in Swaziland.
Claudia has spent over 40 years working with children in South Africa, England, Hawaii and the US with reading and learning disabilities, lecturing college students on the theory of Education. Her latest set of adventure books are written for these children.
Claudia has written and additional six educational books to include:
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English reading and writing through poetry: A set of three level up workbooks; from a beginner reader up to adult reading age using hundreds of known and original relatable poetry.
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Study Methods for school and university and handwriting.
Claudia is also a prolific artist painting on silk, acrylics and oils on ClaudiCollections.
