Trevor Noah
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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"The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed"--Back cover.
Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of the Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world...
2) It's Trevor Noah: born a crime : stories from a South African childhood : adapted for young readers
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
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"Trevor Noah, the [host of] The Daily Show, shares his ... story of growing up in South Africa, with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child like him to exist. But he did exist--and from the beginning, the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government"--Publisher marketing.