Name: The Heaven Shop
ISBN: 9781550419078

Deborah Ellis

Binti and her siblings struggle to survive when they are split up and sent to different parts of Malawi after their parents die of AIDS.

The Heaven Shop

Nadine 

Good story, and one that needs to be told. BUT, I struggle with the Deborah Ellis approach inasmuch as I struggle with the "white girl saving the world" approach. It is one thing to tell someone else's story because you believe it needs to be told and to create awareness in the world, but wouldn't it be so much better to empower people to tell their own stories in their own ways so that they don't become this "she did this and then that happened and then she did that" ...