She can already draw, and draws beautiful pictures in the sandy soil of her home. Her best friend, Halima, has moved with her family to Nyala, where Halima attends Gad Primary School. Life for them is simple and good, though Amira dreams of something more. Amira lives on a farm with her family, raising wheat and mangoes, among other crops. She has loving parents –her father, Dando, and her mother, Muma – and a younger sister, Leila, who serves both as a source of annoyance and a source of love. When the novel begins, Amira has just turned 12, and is very hopeful and content. “The Red Pencil” is a young adult novel by Andrea Davis Pinkney which recounts nearly ten months in the life of a 12-year-old Sudanese girl named Amira, from September 2003 to April 2004, as her village is destroyed in war and as she seeks to rise above hopelessness to attend school.
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