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Seeds of change : planting a path to peace / by Jen Cullerton Johnson ; illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler.

Summary:

"A biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai, a female scientist who made a stand in the face of opposition to women's rights and her own Greenbelt Movement, an effort to restore Kenya's ecosystem by planting millions of trees"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781600603679 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 160060367X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Lee & Low Books, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:
Grades 2-4 (SLJ)
Awards Note:
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, 2011.
Subject:
Maathai, Wangari > Juvenile literature.
Tree planters (Persons) > Kenya > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya) > Juvenile literature.
Women conservationists > Kenya > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Women politicians > Kenya > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Women's rights > Kenya > Juvenile literature.
Nobel Prize winners > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Women Nobel Prize winners > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Kenya > Environmental conditions > Juvenile literature.
Kenya > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Tree planters (Persons) > Kenya > Biography.
Women conservationists > Kenya > Biography.
Women politicians > Kenya > Biography.
Women's rights > Kenya.
Nobel Prize winners > Biography.
Women Nobel Prize winners > Biography.
Kenya > Environmental conditions.
Kenya > Biography.
Maathai, Wangari.
Tree planters (Persons)
Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)
Conservationists.
Politicians.
Genre:
Picture books for children.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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