A Grade 8 bedtime story set on the slopes of Mount Kenya, about the silences families pass down and the courage it takes to break them. Morally complex and quietly urgent, it is built for the learner at the hinge: a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old who has outgrown simple morals and needs a story that treats them as the reasoning, questioning person they have become. The kind of bedtime reading that lowers the pulse without lowering the stakes.
The Stone in the Furrow
A boundary dispute. A family silence. A daughter who refused to inherit either.
KES 100
CBC tags for this book
Core competencies
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Learning to Learn
Values
- Respect
Pertinent and contemporary issues
- Environmental education
Language: English
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