Love, David

This book is a girl and boy who lives with their family in Cape Flats, South Africa and life wasn't as easy. Their father has a hard times getting a steady job and their mother takes long hours working for a white family in the rich area of town. This forces the girl Anna to watch over her baby sister while her parents and her half brother are gone. Anna also loves her brother David so dearly. They explore and have many adventures together and also rescue a three legged dog which nearly drowned. Then when David decides to take the dog back home the tension between him and their father builds up much more stronger which makes Anna and their mom so sad. Together Anna and her family were in for a lot of hardships.

One is transported into the world of children growing up in the apartheid times. The book is so poignant because the author accesses the child's emotions and observations of extreme circumstances, but the child of course is nonjudgemental. Case combines exquisite sensitivity with a total lack of sentimentality as she describes the actualities of apartheid South Africa.