When the rain comes /

Malini, a young girl in a small Sri Lankan community, is anxious about the responsibility of helping with the monsoon-season rice planting for the first time. When a flash flood leaves her stranded alone with the ox cart full of rice seedlings, she summons unexpected courage to calm the ox and save...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fullerton, Alma (Author)
Other Authors:	LaFave, Kim (Illustrator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto : Pajama Press, [2017].
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Rice farmers > Juvenile fiction. Courage > Juvenile fiction. Floods > Juvenile fiction. Sri Lanka > Juvenile fiction. Picture books for children. Rice farmers > Fiction. Courage > Fiction. Floods > Fiction. Sri Lanka > Fiction. JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women. JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / Farm & Ranch Life. JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Asia. JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance.

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Summary:	Malini, a young girl in a small Sri Lankan community, is anxious about the responsibility of helping with the monsoon-season rice planting for the first time. When a flash flood leaves her stranded alone with the ox cart full of rice seedlings, she summons unexpected courage to calm the ox and save her town's rice crop.
Item Description:	Originally published in 2016.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm.
ISBN:	9781772780123 177278012X