Pinkney, Andrea Davis,

The red pencil / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Shane W. Evans. - First edition: September 2014. - 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"--

ISBN: 9780316247801 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2013044753

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Refugees--Fiction.
Blacks--Sudan--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Children's literature--2015.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Sudan--Fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]