Author: Charles K. Githae
Publisher: East African Educ. Publ.
Keywords: history, kenya, makers, inmate, comrade
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 9966466673
ISBN-13: 9789966466679

Destiny bundles Fred in jail, in the company of a former judge, a Member of Parliament, a priest, a doctor, and other pillars of society. The author is a well-established novelist and he delivers a rendition of the scintillating encounters and escapades of the various characters when they were free - some of the encounters being the reason they are now together in jail.

Author: Juma Bustani
Publisher: East African Educ. Publ.
Keywords: series, readers, secondary, nakuru, adventure
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 9966464204
ISBN-13: 9789966464200

An action-packed story designed to appeal to growing children. Young boys and a girl help the Professor rescue a mysterious black briefcase.

Author: Juma Bustani
Publisher: East African Educ. Publ.
Keywords: africa, poets, nairobi, adventure
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 9966468420
ISBN-13: 9789966468420

Following the author’s two previous story books Adventure in Nakuru and Adventure in Mombasa, the young heroes and heroine now work together to help Uncle Kiki, who is in big trouble with the police. He has been framed and is suspected of murder. His young relations track down the witness who can absolve him, and together they trap the real murderer. The story is told with pace and excitement, and is illustrated with fourteen black and white drawings.

Author: Asenath Odaga
Publisher: East African Educ. Publ.
Keywords: readers, junior, hippo, ogilo
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 1985-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 9966465448
ISBN-13: 9789966465443

First published in Dholuo in 1983, this is the first English-language edition of this story for children. One morning Ogilo and his two friends discover a pregnant hippo stuck in a muddly hole. The story centres around the boys secrecy, to protect the hippo being killed by grown-ups for meat, and their efforts to save the hippo. The fate of the poacher contains a moral tale.

Author: David G. Maillu
Publisher: East African Educ. Publ.
Keywords: polygamy, kind
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 996646381X
ISBN-13: 9789966463814

Is polygamy moral? Should the Church marry and bless polygamists? Should Europe and America legalise polygamy? What really is the African’s honest opinion of polygamy? David Maillu is a leading African literary writer, and here provocatively discusses these issues. He looks at the relevance of polygamy in the modern society, from historical, ethical, traditional, economic, biblical and psychological standpoints.

Author: George G.N. Kamau
Publisher: East African Educ. Publ.
Keywords: series, frontline, heinemann, wangui, little
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 9966468609
ISBN-13: 9789966468604

This is the story of Wangui, a young girl whose adventure starts in a canoe on the dangerous dragon-filled lake near her village. Unable to escape from the canoe she drifts until she reaches a small island. Here she meets an ill old lady and her sympathy for the woman causes her to embark on a dangerous journey to find a special medicine. On the journey Wangui is given a magic stick by Magic Boy and is captured by greedy giants that want to eat her. She finally returns with the medicine, cures the old lady and returns to a huge welcome in her village.

Author: Monica Genya
Publisher: East African Educ. Publ.
Keywords: series, books, spear, chain, links
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 9966469567
ISBN-13: 9789966469564

Kenya is suddenly rocked by a mysterious wave of high-level murders. Who is behind it? and why are the Cabinet being targeted? Christopher Mathenge sets out to find the answers, and finds himself in an intricate web of love, romance, deceit, murder and death.