# Rain School

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- Book: [Rain School](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-rumford/rain-school) ([Rain School.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-rumford/rain-school.md))
- Authors: [James Rumford](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-rumford)
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- ISBN: 978-05-4724-307-8
- Pages: 32
- Published: 2010-10-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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 pages with vibrant ink-and-pastel colors of Africa and the spare words of a poet to show how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.