The Silver Pencil
Format: library binding
ISBN:
9780844667942 (0844667943)
Publish date: January 28th 1995
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
Edition language: English
Series: Janet (#1)
Fictionalized memoir of a girl growing up in colonial Trinidad, then moving to Britain at age 12 to go to school (which almost all colonials did), and finally, going to the US to learn to be a teacher. The most interesting parts of this book for me were the picture of turn-of-the-century Trinidad an...