Description

A glorious boarding school adventure set in Nigeria –
a story of friendship, empathy and fighting for what you believe
in.
‘What a joyful, vibrant story! A book for the heart’ EFUA
TRAORE, author of Children of
the Quicksands

Jummy has won a place at the River School, the finest girls’ boarding
school in Nigeria.

Nothing can dampen her spirits, not even when she learns that
her best friend Caro won’t be joining her.

By the Shine-Shine River, school is everything Jummy dreamt of,
with friendly new girls, midnight feasts and sporting prizes –
but when Caro suddenly arrives at the school to work, not to learn,
Jummy must bring all her friends together to help.

Based on the author’s own experience of attending boarding
school in Nigeria

A joyful, glorious collision of classic boarding-school
story with vibrant 1990s Nigeria

Jummy investigates an intriguing mystery as her best
friend from home turns up at the school

Continue the adventure in books 2 and 3, Time
to Shine at the River School and Three Cheers
for the River School!