La Escuela De Elizabeti/ Elizabeti's School

ELIZABETI'S SCHOOL, the third in the award-winning series about Elizabeti, a young girl in contemporary Tanzania, introduces Elizabeti on her first day of school. Despite the thrill of wearing a new school uniform and shiny new shoes, and the excitement of going to school for the very first time, Elizabeti starts to miss her family very soon after she arrives at the schoolhouse. She worries that her mother might need help with household chores and that her younger brother and sister might need a playmate. When Elizabeti gets home, she is so glad to see everyone that she decides she won't return to school the next day. However, that evening, Elizabeti has a chance to show her family some of the things she has learned in school-counting to five, writing letters, dancing, and playing a game called machaura. Her pride in accomplishing these things and her joy in sharing them make Elizabeti decide that maybe she will give school another chance after all.

STEPHANIE STUVE-BODEEN lived in Tanzania, Africa, as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1980s, and it was there that she met the young girl who was the inspiration for the three books in the Elizabeti series. Stuve-Bodeen is also the author of several other published and forthcoming children's books. She and her family live in La Center, Washington.