Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was a typical American girl, interested in what I should wear to school rather than what I might learn there. I had no idea how much my life would change when I became a pen pal with a girl in Zimbabwe. #2 I was excited about my pen pal assignment. I was the only person who had picked a country in Africa. I was excited to learn about somewhere radically different. #3 I was always excited to come home and tell my mom about my pen pal. She knew all of our neighbors, and I would often find her sitting at the kitchen table reading the newspaper. #4 I learned that Zimbabwe was liberated from the United Kingdom in 1980. I was beginning to see parallels between the Africans and American colonists: they wanted to be free from British rule

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