This book seems to start in the middle of the story. It’s about a young teacher who has a new assignment and she’s going to go teach school in the middle of the Amazon. She packs her books and teaching supplies with her and off she goes. But one night the rain is coming and destroys all of her books and the community helps create new ones out of cloth and embroidery. And she realizes that these books are just as important as the books she had used before. The story is nice and interesting however, it is very long.