Rain School by James Rumford (New, 2010, HC, 32 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

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New with slight damage to the dust jacket. ISBN 9780547243078 It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road. "Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas a sks. "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 vibrant ink-and-pastel 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. Show more