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2) Diamond boy
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"When Patson's family moves to [the] Marange region of Zimbabwe, he begins working in the mines, searching for blood diamonds, until government soldiers arrive and Patson is forced to journey to South Africa in search of his missing sister and a better life"--
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When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope.
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The interracial friendship between Blessing and Evan, two boys growing up in a Methodist mission in Southern Rhodesia in the 1960s, is put to the test when a local white farmer is murdered by a group of African independence fighters, and officials at Evan's all-white school begin training the students to take up arms against the Africans.
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