Rain School

by James Rumford

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547243073
• ISBN13: 9780547243078
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.5" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2