Rain School

by James Rumford

Synopsis

It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road.

"Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks.
"Will they give us a pencil?”
"Will I learn to read?"

But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher. "We will build our school," she says. "This is our first lesson."

James Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps volunteer, fills these pages with the vibrant colors of Africa and the spare words of a poet to show how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2010
ISBN-13 9780547243078
ISBN-10 0547243073
Class Copyright
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Subject Fiction;Juvenile Fiction
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 32
Shelf No. KQ471
Grade Range 0 - 2
Ages 4 - 8
Lexile AD420L
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