The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith is the latest (13th) episode in the beloved, best-selling series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and the kindest and best detective in Botswana faces a tricky situation when her personal and professional lives become entangled. Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a repeated dream: a vision of a tall, strange man who waits for her beneath an acacia tree. Odd as this is, she’s far too busy to worry about it. The best apprentice at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors is in trouble with the law and stuck with the worst lawyer in Gaborone. Grace Makutsi and Phuti Radiphuti are building the house of their dreams, but their builder is not completely on the up and up. And, most shockingly, Mma Potokwane, defender of Botswana’s weak and downtrodden, has been dismissed from her post as matron at the orphan farm. Can the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency help restore the beloved matron to her rightful position? As wealthy and powerful influences at the orphan farm become allied against their friend, help arrives from an unexpected visitor: the tall stranger from Mma Ramotswe’s dreams, who turns out to be none other than the estimable Clovis Andersen, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ prized manual, The Principles of Private Detection. Together, Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi, and their teacher-turned-colleague help right this injustice and in the process discover something new about being a good detective.
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith 272 pages published by Pantheon on April 3, 2012 ASIN: B005PRJQ2G
I am in love with the author McCall Smith who was born in what is now Zimbabwe and was educated there and in Scotland, becoming a law professor in Scotland, and later returning to Africa to work in Botswana, where he helped to set up a new law school at the University of Botswana. The author says that his books represent the range of things he would like to say about the world...and he says them simply and beautifully. In this series of books, he lets us meet Mma Ramotswe, proprietor of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, and follow her adventures as she navigates the cases of her clients and the complexities of her personal life with charm, wisdom, and a healthy dose of humor. The story is a very simple one, easy to read and follow but an excellent opportunity to learn vocabulary from the context...in fact it is necessary to learn the vocabulary from the context because the words cannot be found in any dictionary.
ACTIVITY See the How to Read for Vocabulary Page to figure out how to find the meaning of the following words as they are used in the text: thebe, Rra, Mma, ko, ko, pula, to be "late", paw-paw, bush, ice floe, hole-in-the-wall, denouement, aphorisms, say grace, Setswana. How many other words did you discover during your reading? What do you think Botswana looks like? feels like? the people are like? Would you like to live there?
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith 272 pages published by Pantheon on April 3, 2012 ASIN: B005PRJQ2G
I am in love with the author McCall Smith who was born in what is now Zimbabwe and was educated there and in Scotland, becoming a law professor in Scotland, and later returning to Africa to work in Botswana, where he helped to set up a new law school at the University of Botswana. The author says that his books represent the range of things he would like to say about the world...and he says them simply and beautifully. In this series of books, he lets us meet Mma Ramotswe, proprietor of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, and follow her adventures as she navigates the cases of her clients and the complexities of her personal life with charm, wisdom, and a healthy dose of humor. The story is a very simple one, easy to read and follow but an excellent opportunity to learn vocabulary from the context...in fact it is necessary to learn the vocabulary from the context because the words cannot be found in any dictionary.
ACTIVITY See the How to Read for Vocabulary Page to figure out how to find the meaning of the following words as they are used in the text: thebe, Rra, Mma, ko, ko, pula, to be "late", paw-paw, bush, ice floe, hole-in-the-wall, denouement, aphorisms, say grace, Setswana. How many other words did you discover during your reading? What do you think Botswana looks like? feels like? the people are like? Would you like to live there?
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