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After her father’s death, her family honors his wish that she receive a good education. As Graça studies in the city and later in Portugal, she becomes a teacher and gains skills, friendships, and hope to help advocate for children’s right to learn and bring change to Mozambique.","Gracas Dream  \nWriter: Melissa Fagan  \nIllustration: Karlien de Villiers and Marike le Roux  \nEnglish Story Book  \nGracas Dream  \nWriter: Melissa Fagan  \nIllustration: Karlien de Villiers and Marike le Roux Reformatted for Bloom By: Cara Ediger [Bookdash.org](Bookdash.org)  \nEnglish  \nGraca's dream  \nWriter: Melissa Fagan  \nIllustration: Karlien de Villiers and Marike le Roux  \nLanguage: English  \nBook Dash is a movement of volunteers working to create open-licensed books for young readers, and get these into the hands of children. See more [at www.bookdash.org](at www.bookdash.org).  \nSaide, South African Institute for Distance Education [www.africanstorybook.org](www.africanstorybook.org)  \nA Saide Initiative  \nCopyright © 2014, Melissa Fagan, Karlien de Villiers, Marike le Roux and [Bookdash.org](Bookdash.org)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) Version 3.0 Unported Licence Disclaimer: You are free to download, copy, translate or adapt this story and use the illustrations as long as you attribute or credit the original author/s and illustrator/s.  \nGraça was about to be born in a small village in Mozambique. The country was poor and the people did not yet rule themselves. Children didn’t have good schools and many couldn’t read. Graça’smother dreamed of giving her children better opportunities . 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