Sizwe, Tembile, Victor, Vuyo and Mlibo have to do some fine detective work to rope in a gang of ruthless drug dealers. Queen, the leader of the gang, will stop at nothing but murder to prevent anybody from interfering with her plans. When the four friends are captured by Queen’s mugs, they devise a clever plan to escape and foil the gang’s smuggling activities.
This school edition of The Street Detectives: Drugs are for mugs was approved for the Department of Basic Education’s National Catalogue for Senior Phase learners. Additional educational and subject matter is included: activities for pre-reading and post-reading, questions according to cognitive levels, glossary of literary terms and notes on the novel as genre.
A memorandum with answers is available on www.humanrousseau.com
About the author
Janet Ford has written many children’s books and this is the fifth book in her The Street Detectives series. Janet lives in Newlands, Cape Town.