Nyangoma, a twelve-year-old African girl, invites the reader into her world to meet her family and to see what everyday life is like in a real Ugandan village. Come and find out about her home and school and what Nyangoma and her friends do in their free time. Then discover what happens to her one day on the way to school.

Vocabulary areas: Home and family, food, animals, the way around us.

Grammar & Structures: Past continuous, Present perfect, will, adverbs, conjunctions after before, If so, If and When clauses (in zero conditionals), before/after clauses, verbs that take infinite / gerund, infinitive of purpose, Be/look like, be made of/from, comparatives and superlatives, descriptive adjectives.

Tags: Valuing other cultures / Friendship / Citizenship