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Can I read Year of No Rain on EtoBox?
Year of No Rain by Alice Mead is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Year of No Rain about?
"An artfully told story . . . The history, the land, and the determination of a band of refugees to care for each other are vividly evoked in this important work." -- Starred review, Kirkus Reviews In the dry spring of 1999, eleven-year-old Stephen Majok watches as his friend Wol joins a circle of dancers. Wol is celebrating – only fourteen, he is engaged to Stephen's sister. Wol wants to marry because he might join the guerrillas in southern Sudan and fight the northern government soldiers. He
Who reads Year of No Rain?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Alice Mead
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781429936569
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Children'S, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction
- Rating
- 3.57 / 5 (76 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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