In the story Lila and the Secret of Rain, by David Conway, a Kenyan girl named Lila saves her village using the Secret of Rain. The story takes place in Kenya and starts off with a terrible heat wave at Lila’s village, making it too hot to even do basic chores. She overhears her mother stating that the crops were failing, the well had dried up, and no water meant no life. Then, her grandfather tells her that to make the sky rain, she has to climb the tallest mountain and tell the sky the saddest things she knew. After learning the Secret of Rain, Lila sets off to find a mountain to do the Secret of Rain. After climbing the mountain, she starts off by telling the sky the things she thinks that were pretty sad, but it doesn’t start to rain. Desperate,
