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She is Helena Bosman, from a tiny little town lost in the vast expanses of the Northern Cape, but Grandpa and Grandma call her Vaselinetjie. She is their little angel from the veldt, the beginning and the end of their world. But when Vaselinetjie is ten years old, two officials from Welfare step in and she is sent away to a boarding school in Gauteng - the orphanage where Madiba's reject children have to live. It's a strange, hard, dangerous world of scum children, bad-tempered matrons and a harsh, unfair principal; a world of smoking cigarette butts, having one's hair shaved off and making plans to run away. It's a world where no one bothers about anyone else, where you too learn not to give a damn.But as the months turn into years, there is one name that crops up again and again: Texan Kirby. And that name does strange things to Vaselinetjie's heart.
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She is Helena Bosman, from a tiny little town lost in the vast expanses of the Northern Cape, but Grandpa and Grandma call her Vaselinetjie. She is their little angel from the veldt, the beginning and the end of their world. But when Vaselinetjie is ten years old, two officials from Welfare step in and she is sent away to a boarding school in Gauteng - the orphanage where Madiba's reject children have to live. It's a strange, hard, dangerous world of scum children, bad-tempered matrons and a harsh, unfair principal; a world of smoking cigarette butts, having one's hair shaved off and making plans to run away. It's a world where no one bothers about anyone else, where you too learn not to give a damn.But as the months turn into years, there is one name that crops up again and again: Texan Kirby. And that name does strange things to Vaselinetjie's heart.

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Imprint

Tafelberg Publishers Ltd

Country of origin

South Africa

Release date

August 2008

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Expected to ship within 2 - 4 working days

First published

March 2011

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Translators

Dimensions

213 x 137 x 14mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

248

ISBN-13

978-0-624-04658-5

Barcode

9780624046585

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LSN

0-624-04658-3

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