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Summary Of Chanda's Secret By Alan Stratton
The novel Chanda’s Secret is a powerful attention-grabbing story about a teenage girl in sub-Saharan Africa who comes to terms with the reality of AIDS and the affect it has on the people she loves most. Although the book mainly revolves around Chanda, the protagonist and her never ending cycle of tragedy, through her story, we learn a lot about the stigma against the pandemic AIDs where she gives a voice to those affected in southern Africa. Alan Stratton wrote this book to challenge and change attitudes HIV and AIDs. While he was successful in changing some of the characters in the book, however we cannot say the same about the

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