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Welcome to a new term at the River School! Best friends Jummy and Caro are attending together and they're thrilled to discover they both get to work on Nile House's agricultural project. But the Shine-Shine River is running low and Jummy will have to step up if she wants to save it ...]]>  

Welcome to a new term at the River School!

Jummy and Caro are thrilled to be working with their Nile House friends on the school corn-planting competition. But as they try to grow the biggest crops, they realize the beautiful Shine-Shine River is running low – why, and what does it have to do with the sinister bakery nearby?

The friends will have to step up if they want to save the river and its wildlife – and win the school prize in the process …  

  • The sequel to the critically-acclaimed  Jummy at the River School, chosen as both Indie Book of the Month and Blackwell’s Book of the Month
  • A glorious collision of old-fashioned boarding-school tropes with vibrant 1990s Nigeria
  • Irrepressible Jummy investigates a mystery full of laughter, environmentalism and friendship with a message of empowerment

 

PRAISE FOR BOOK 1,  JUMMY AT THE RIVER SCHOOL:

‘Beautifully told, with powerful and emotive writing ? a joyous read filled with hope’  THE SCOTSMAN

‘What a joyful, vibrant story! A book for the heart’  EFUA  TRAORE, AUTHOR OF  CHILDREN OF THE QUICKSANDS

 

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A glorious boarding school adventure set in Nigeria – a story of friendship, empathy and fighting for what you believe in.

‘What a joyful, vibrant story! A book for the heart‘  EFUA TRAORE, author of  Children of the Quicksands

Jummy has won a place at the River School, the finest girls’ boarding school in Nigeria.

Nothing can dampen her spirits, not even when she learns that her best friend Caro won’t be joining her.

By the Shine-Shine River, school is everything Jummy dreamt of, with friendly new girls, midnight feasts and sporting prizes – but when Caro suddenly arrives at the school to work, not to learn, Jummy must bring all her friends together to help.

  • From a fantastic new talent in middle-grade contemporary fiction, Sabine Adeyinka, based on her own experience of attending boarding school in Nigeria
  • A joyful, glorious collision of classic boarding-school story with vibrant 1990s Nigeria
  • Irrepressible Jummy investigates an intriguing mystery as her best friend from home turns up at the school

 

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