The curse of the gold coins Grade 7 Novel (CAPS)

Leano and her sister Pelonomi have a problem. They going to be kicked out of school for not paying school fees. Their mother seems unwilling to do anything to help them because she’s convinced they’re cursed. She believes all the women in their family are cursed because the long-dead Mojewa, the girls great, great grandmother, stole three gold coins from her own mother and the ancestors are punishing the entire family for her evil deed. To make matters worse, in the middle of everything, Leano starts slipping back and forth between time ” one minute she’s in her village of Serowe and its 2008, and then with a blink of an eye she’s back in 1902 when Khama the Great is preparing to leave the Bamangwato capital of Old Phalatswe. It is in Old Phalatswe that Leano meets her great, great grandmother, Mojewa, and discovers a terrible secret Mojewa was wrongly accused! Now not only must Leano solve her own problem about paying the fees so she and Pelonomi are not kicked out of school, but she must also help Mojewa prove she’s innocent and rid the family of the terrible curse once and for all.