She promised her mama she'd keep them safe.
It's been six months since Mama died, and Chanda is struggling to raise her little brother and ... read full description
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Jun 08, 2008
KT
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Chanda, a teenager living in an unnamed sub-Saharan African country, is the sole caretaker for her younger sister, Iris, age 6, and her brother, Soly, age 5. Her mother died six months earlier from AIDS, and Chanda promised her she'd take care of them. When Iris and Soly are kidnapped during a rebel raid on their village, she feels she must keep her promise to her mother, so she and another teenager, Nelson, go on a dangerous quest to track the rebels and rescue the children.
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Jan 08, 2010
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I'm the author of CHANDA'S WARS and I love meeting readers. If you'd like to ask me anything about this book, feel free to email me either through this website or at my website: www.allanstratton.com
CHANDA'S WARS is about Chanda, Kabelo, a teenager in SubSaharan Africa whose young brother and sister kidnapped to become child soldiers. Together with a troubled young trapper, she risks her life in the bush to find them and bring them home. It's a story not just about a literal More...
I'm the author of CHANDA'S WARS and I love meeting readers. If you'd like to ask me anything about this book, feel free to email me either through this website or at my website: www.allanstratton.com
CHANDA'S WARS is about Chanda, Kabelo, a teenager in SubSaharan Africa whose young brother and sister kidnapped to become child soldiers. Together with a troubled young trapper, she risks her life in the bush to find them and bring them home. It's a story not just about a literal More...
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Jan 07, 2009
Elizabeth
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This book is a wonderful companion for and worthy follow-up to Chanda's Secrets. While a reader does not have to be familiar with the first book, readers that are will find that Chanda's life has become even more complicated, and will be drawn into an involving story that has great implications in today's world. A great discussion book with a well thought-out presentation, right down to having Romeo Dallaire's comments added as an afterword.
Jan 01, 2011
Shubhi
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Chanda’s Wars - “Get Soly and Iris to safety...” After Chanda’s mother dies of AIDS,young Chanda is left with the sole responsibilty to taking care of her younger siblings, only, things aren’t looking up to her. Six months after her mother’s death, she still dreams about wars and bloodshed and her mother instructing her to take Soly and Iris to safety, to Tiro before it’s too late. So Chanda is horrified when rebels attack and her nightmare actually starts playing in front of her eyes. Now she
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Jan 20, 2012
Jenni
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Ever since Chanda's mother died of AIDS, she has been tasked with raising her younger brother and sister and taking care of their African home. Her dreams of finishing high school and winning a scholarship are put on hold for the time being as she works as a teacher at the local elementary school, cleans the house in the evenings, and makes sure her brother and sister get to school on time.
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May 18, 2010
Jennifer
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This fictional treatment of the genocide wars of Africa felt realistic. Though this is a sequel to CHANDA'S SECRETS, this story is a stand alone book. Through Stratton's vivid imagination, we follow Chanda and her small brother and sister as they travel to the next town to visit their grandparents and other relatives.
Chanda's family wants her to marry Nelson, the son of a man who they wanted her mother to marry many years ago. C More...
This fictional treatment of the genocide wars of Africa felt realistic. Though this is a sequel to CHANDA'S SECRETS, this story is a stand alone book. Through Stratton's vivid imagination, we follow Chanda and her small brother and sister as they travel to the next town to visit their grandparents and other relatives.
Chanda's family wants her to marry Nelson, the son of a man who they wanted her mother to marry many years ago. C More...
Mar 02, 2009
bjneary
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Just like Chanda's Secret, this continuation of Chanda's story has Chanda, now protecting her brother, Soly, and her sister, Iris, wrestling with a recurring dream that shatters her nights. It is this dream that sends her back to her mother's home, Tiro,where she died 6 months before. But there is trouble brewing in the form of a madman leader, known as Mandiki, who takes innocent children and forces them to become child soldiers in his quest to spread a civil war. Mandiki steals Soly & Iris a
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Jan 03, 2008
Laura
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This book is the perfect read for this season. I’m not saying that it has anything to do with the holidays, but it put me in perspective. How can I be so materialistic, wanting so much stuff, when there are people, CHILDREN!, fighting wars in Africa?
Chanda’s Wars hit me really hard last night after reading it. It is the kind of book that makes you want to get up and do something about the violence in the world. Chanda is a great character, because most people can connect with her.
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Chanda’s Wars hit me really hard last night after reading it. It is the kind of book that makes you want to get up and do something about the violence in the world. Chanda is a great character, because most people can connect with her.
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Jul 01, 2008
Christine
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Oh. My. Clarinet.
This was possible the best book i have EVER read. Yes, better than Twilight, better than The Host. Yeah. That good. It was stunning. It was chilling and provocative. It made me want to cry.
I read on every page the truth about African lifestyle--they aren't just crazy tribal people. I'm reading it and realizing how big the AIDS virus is there. Wow. Just, wow.
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This was possible the best book i have EVER read. Yes, better than Twilight, better than The Host. Yeah. That good. It was stunning. It was chilling and provocative. It made me want to cry.
I read on every page the truth about African lifestyle--they aren't just crazy tribal people. I'm reading it and realizing how big the AIDS virus is there. Wow. Just, wow.
And I knew a little bit about the war in Uganda, where the leader, Joseph, kidnaps children and uses psy More...
Dec 22, 2009
Luna
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very good read. The book may look long, but there are no big words and its a "can't put it down" book. Its the struggle of Chanda and her younger siblings. Their mother died of AIDS and they are avoided by everyone else except for two people. She feels like she needs to go see her other family members but her siblings get taken by the Rebel forces and turned into soldiers. She has to find her siblings before its too late...
May 23, 2011
Rondell
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well acturally this book was pretty intersting it about a young girl who grew up in africa raising a family of her younger brother and sister after her mother death.she has a dream every night reliving the dream of her mother death. her sister and brother got kidnapped into war between the army and a civil army .at the end of the day she find them and fall in love or so i think
Dec 30, 2009
Ruth
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A heart pounding sequel to "Chanda's Secrets". Chanda's world once again falls apart when her two siblings are kidnapped by an imfamous warlord. Remembering the promise she made to her mother, who died of AIDS, she sets out to rescue them. An amazing and inspiring read no one should miss!
Aug 28, 2011
Hunnagh
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First, let me say that I loved Chanda's Secrets. But I thought Chanda's Wars, its sequel, was very disappointing. Although both books are fictional, the themes in Chanda's Secrets are real. The war that takes place in Chanda's Wars is entirely fictional and to be quite honest seemed very fake sounding.
Jan 17, 2010
Debbie
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I thought that this book was even better than the first book. It was almost impossible to put down after I started reading it. It helped me become more aware of the problems that are occuring in Africa.
Dec 12, 2010
Stacey Speers
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It was pretty good.
It had some really great content in it, with strong themes, but some aspects seemed a little juvenile for me, and the descriptions could have been more interesting
It had some really great content in it, with strong themes, but some aspects seemed a little juvenile for me, and the descriptions could have been more interesting
Dec 11, 2010
Geri
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Even though I didn't read the first one, (wished I would have) this was a great book. It tells a realistic account of a young gril struggling to live in present day Africa and the hardships she has to endure.
Mar 29, 2009
This is the sequel book to Chanda's secrets. It continues on with Chanda'a life stories on how now her mom has died and she has been having bad dreams. Her neighbors tell her to go back to her homeland because things with her mother's family was never settled. When she goes back she encounters many problems including a war going on between a dangerous man that tries to conquer her mother land. Also she meets a handsome boy in which they stick together to find their brothers in sisters who have b
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Mar 12, 2009
Deb
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This powerful book that takes place in a fictional, peaceful African country. The neighboring country is in the midst of a civil war however, and the rebel general infiltrates and seizes the children to make them soldiers. Chanda is guardian to her brother and sister who are taken and vows to rescue them because she promised her mother, who died of AIDS, that she would always care for them. I liked how the book depicted a peaceful African nation, since all we hear about is war in Africa. I also
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Oct 11, 2010
Nicole
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About the same as Chanda's Secrets (generally good but not very subtle), but focusing on child soldiers rather than AIDS.
Aug 01, 2011
OMG AMAZING!!!! U think u know what is gona happen and then u think everything ruined and then it works out again!
May 13, 2010
Chanda's mother has died,
She just dreamt about the whole experience and her best friend Esther woke her up :)
She just dreamt about the whole experience and her best friend Esther woke her up :)
Aug 02, 2011
Rick
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An excellent book about a brave young girl dealing with family issues, and war in Africa. Recommended.
Jun 01, 2009
Dani
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I really liked this book.
It was very intense, but not too intense to scare off young teens who might enjoy the plot.
I found that it was written fairly well, and the storyline always kept you interested.
The only problem I had with it, was that it was too predictable for me.
I liked coming along for the ride, but I already knew what was coming, so it wasn't nearly as enjoyable as I had anticipated.
I do recomend this for classroom reading although, a valuable storyline More...
It was very intense, but not too intense to scare off young teens who might enjoy the plot.
I found that it was written fairly well, and the storyline always kept you interested.
The only problem I had with it, was that it was too predictable for me.
I liked coming along for the ride, but I already knew what was coming, so it wasn't nearly as enjoyable as I had anticipated.
I do recomend this for classroom reading although, a valuable storyline More...
May 29, 2009
Julie
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I was truly amazed by this book. Out of the top 20 for Thumbs Up, it was the one I was most dreading to read because I thought it would be boring, I'm not a huge fan of books set in Africa and I thought I wouldn't be able to relate to the characters at all. It has turned out to be one of my favorites on the list so far. I have even gone so far as to check out Chanda's Secret to read that one. The characters are authentic and likable (well, most of them) and my heart cried for this girl and h
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Jun 25, 2008
Elise
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I read this as a follow up to his other book Chanda's Secrets I read in the Young Adult Lit class. I enjoyed the fictional characters set in a fictional war in Africa.
One of my assignments was to create an award for YAL that included at least ten books. I chose War as the theme and ended up with mostly books about World War II. It was what I came up with in a week. I think I would have put this book in the ten because of Stratton made me think about how adults manipulate children to More...
One of my assignments was to create an award for YAL that included at least ten books. I chose War as the theme and ended up with mostly books about World War II. It was what I came up with in a week. I think I would have put this book in the ten because of Stratton made me think about how adults manipulate children to More...
Dec 01, 2010
i think this book is really gtreat and tells you about what some people may actually have in other places like having non parents, raisung brothers and sisters by yourself. It's kind of a reality for some people
Jun 22, 2008
Kirsten
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What an enthralling book! The trials and tribulations faced by the main character are unbearable: both parents are dead, she is left to care for her younger siblings, a civil war erupts in her country, a viciously cruel war leader is taking children as soldiers, and there is no support to be found from relatives. As I read this book, I truly had a heightened sense of appreciation for all that I am blessed with in my life, and for all those who struggle to survive.
