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Dust and Rain: Chipo and Chibwe save the Green Valley

by Ruth Hartley

A journey to protect the Green Valley

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A journey to protect the Green Valley

Drought puts Chipo and Chibwe’s family farm at risk, prompting the siblings to seek help from Makemba, a Wise Woman in the Evergreen Forest. Their journey brings together environmental concerns and magical elements, with the children facing danger as they travel toward a possible way to restore the valley’s water. The premise places sibling cooperation and the effects of drought at the center of an adventure set in a modern, magical Africa.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in adventure fiction set in Africa.
  • Readers drawn to stories featuring siblings, magic, and a quest.
  • Those interested in fictional treatments of drought and climate change.

Themes

Drought and climate changeFamily and sibling cooperationMagic and adventureEnvironmental care

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Book overview

Two children make a perilous journey through the heart of modern and magical Africa to save their parents' farm in the Green Valley from drought and climate change.

Kambili and the drought arrive in a whirlwind of dust into the lives of CHIPO, an eleven-year-old girl with a special gift, and her brother, CHIBWE. Without rain, the family can't grow food. so the children run away to find Makemba, the Wise Woman in the Evergreen Forest who can teach them how to keep their valley green. They are kidnapped by criminals but escape and have extraordinary adventures as they journey to find Makemba and then take her magical river water to save the Valley and end the drought.

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