The Long Dry Time (V/V syllable division)

The maize is dead, the goats grow thin, and the river has shrunk to the width of a child’s arm. When the rains fail and the whole village falls into ‘chaos’, who will find the answer everyone has walked past for years? A ten year old girl named Lwazi listens to the wise old Nozipho and begins to wonder about a forgotten well and the water that might still lie at the bottom. Can a village ‘create’ hope from what it already has? This Bookbot level practices two syllable words split between two vowels, as in ‘quiet’, ’trio’, and ’triumph’.