The three texts in this collection address several topics, including education, family planning, and safe sex. In the title story, Broken Promise, a fifteen-year-old girl agrees to marry a man twice her age on the condition that he allows her to continue her schooling and take her WASSCE three years later. Will he keep his promise? The narrator in the poem Going Back to School energetically describes returning to school as a mom. Let’s Talk: Family Planning and Safe Sex, offers some straightforward information about contraception and sexual health.
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Written by Saydia Muhammad, Nathaniel Pearce & Jedidah Johnson / Illustrated by Obuseli C. Parkinson & Ahmed Sahid Nasralla