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Playing A Dangerous Game

ISBN-10: 1324030380
ISBN-13: 9781324030386
Author: Ochieng, Patrick
Interest Level: 5-9
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Publication Date: August 2022

Copyright: 2021

Page Count: 208

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Interest Level

Grades 5-9

Reading Level

Guided Reading: Z
Lexile: 850L
Accelerated Reader Level: 5.6
Accelerated Reader Points: 6.0

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Adolescence

JUVENILE FICTION / Boys & Men

JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Africa

Description
Lumush and his three friends live with their families in Railway Estate, spending their free time in the countryside or in the yards behind the estate, playing a game of chance called pata potea next to the wreck of an old car. When the boys' attention begins to wander farther, they discover a deserted house believed to be haunted. As they explore the house, they learn that it's not ghosts they have to fear but the malevolent Mwachuma. By day he works in his junkyard, but by night he and his accomplices steal coffee from the railway yard and smuggle it into the "ghost house." As the young boys are drawn into this criminal underworld, they face a mounting danger that threatens both themselves and their families.
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