South African author Janice Warman's The World Beneath has been recommended for use in US schools and endorsed by Amnesty International.The book was selected as one of 300 on the annual list of recommendations made by the Junior Library Guild, which means it will be in US school libraries.Speaking from London, Warman said she was honoured by the attention her book had received."Being recognised by Amnesty International is huge. This means the book will be used to educate children about human rights," she said.The novel, about life under apartheid, is Warman's third after The Hey Nonny Handbook and Class of 79.The World Beneath takes place in the 1970s, when 11-year-old Joshua lives with his mother, Beauty, in the maid's room in the back yard of the white employer's house."Although this is fiction, the book does remind me of my childhood. We never really knew what was going on until we were much older," she said...