The red pencil

By Andrea Davis Pinkney

Subjects: Stories in rhyme, Juvenile fiction, Novels in verse, Fiction, Africa, fiction, Blacks, Children's fiction, Blacks, fiction, Africa, north, fiction, Education, Refugees, fiction, Refugees

Description: "After her tribal village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to safety at a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a single red pencil and the friendship and encouragement of a wise elder"-- After her village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a single red pencil and the friendship and encouragement of a wise elder.