Feronika mengenakan sandal jepitnya. Matahari belum juga terbit, namun ia telah siap untuk berjalan selama dua setengah jam untuk pergi ke sekolah. Sore nanti, ia akan kembali melewati rute yang sama: pantai berbatu, semak belukar, dan hutan. Di malam hari sepulang sekolah, Feronika menyalakan pelita untuk menemaninya belajar karena belum ada listrik di kampungnya. Namun demikian, ia berhasil menjadi salah satu murid terbaik di sekolah. Bagaimana ia bisa melakukan itu? Yuk kita baca kisahnya dalam Feronika dan Seribu Langkah Menggapai Cita.

Feronika puts on her slippers. The sun has not even risen but she’s ready to walk for two and a half hours to go to school. Later on in the afternoon, she will return back through the same path: rocky beach, bushes and jungle. At night after coming home, she lights up the torch to accompany her studying at night as there is no electricity in her village. Yet she manages to become one of the bests in school. How does she do that? Let’s find out in Feronika and A Thousand Steps of Dreams.

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Feronika was born in Hoor village, several kms up north from Ad village, the northern part of Kei Besar island. There are only one junior high school located in Ad village that serves eight villages around it. Because there is no road connecting those villages, the children have to walk for several hours to reach school.