The red pencil /
by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Shane W. Evans.
- First edition.
- 308 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
"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"--
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Novels in verse. Refugees--Fiction. Black people--Sudan--Fiction.