The Red Pencil

Andrea Davis Pinkney

The Red Pencil In this novel told in verse, Amira's Sudanese village is attacked by the Janjaweed militia. Her family loses everything and is forced to walk to a refugee camp. Amira's dreams of attending school are crushed unless she can find a way out of the camp in a country full of conflict.

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