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With classes about to let out for the summer, we know what you're thinking: that the last thing you want to do is read a book about school!
Well, think again.
"A School Like Mine" takes you around the world, visiting 30 other countries to see how kids in different cultures live, eat, play and learn. Check out how their lives compare with yours -- what's different and, perhaps more surprising, what's the same.
We'll give you a quick preview today to whet your appetite. If you enjoy it enough to buy the book (or get someone to buy it for you), the publisher will make a donation to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and you will be helping kids like some of those you'll read about in these pages.
Yasmin From Brazil
School starts at 7:30 a.m. in Rio de Janeiro, where 11-year-old Yasmin lives. There are 32 kids in her class but no computers in her school, which is in a poor neighborhood.
Yasmin enjoys playing drums and says English is her favorite class. "It's important to speak other languages," she says.
Jucari From Mexico
Boys and girls at Jucari's school in Mexico City all wear uniforms. There are lots of computers to use, and the classrooms have interactive whiteboards. At recess the kids play a game called Tazos, which uses tokens that come in bags of snack food.
Jucari, 10, loves cars of all types. He decorates his notebooks with them and sleeps in a race-car bed.
Sibusiso From South Africa
Sibusiso, who's 11, walks five miles to school from his home on a strawberry farm. There are 23 students in his class, some as old as 15.
There is a garden at school with a barbed-wire fence around it to keep thieves away. After lunch, Sibusiso and other students do their own dishes.
Susan From Botswana
Susan, her brother and two sisters live with their grandmother because their parents are dead. The family lives in a thatched-roof hut that has no running water.
Susan, 9, would like to become a nurse "and help people." Her favorite subjects are English and math. After school she attends a special program with other orphans.
