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.
Featured in WOW Review Volume IX, Issue 2.
- ISBN: 9780316247801
- Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Illustrator: Evans, Shane W.
- Published: 2014 , Little Brown & Co
- Themes: Dreams, girls, Literacy, novels in verse, Refugees
- Descriptors: Africa, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Poetry, Sudan
- No. of pages: 320