Seeds of change : planting a path to peace / by Jen Cullerton Johnson ; illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler.
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TextPublication details: New York : Lee & Low Books, c2010 Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cmISBN: - 160060367X (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781600603679 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Maathai, Wangari -- Juvenile literature
- Maathai, Wangari
- Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya) -- Juvenile literature
- Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)
- Nobel Prize winners -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Tree planters (Persons) -- Kenya -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women conservationists -- Kenya -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women Nobel Prize winners -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women politicians -- Kenya -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women's rights -- Kenya -- 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
- Tree planters (Persons)
- Conservationists
- Politicians
- Kenya -- Environmental conditions -- Juvenile literature
- Kenya -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Kenya -- Environmental conditions
- Kenya -- Biography
- SB63.M22 J646 2010
- Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2011
- Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, 2011.
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| Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Youth Collection | SB63.M22 J64 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800140253 |
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"Book design by Scott Myers Studios. Book production by The Kids at Our House."--colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
An illustrated biography of Wangari Maathai, SEEDS OF CHANGE describes her work with the Green Belt Movement she started in Kenya, which still empowers ordinary women worldwide to plant trees. Maathai’s work furthered the causes of equal rights for women, environmental protection, and education. (Miller Library Staff)
"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.
Grades 2-4 (SLJ).
Recommended for primary school (age 6-12) and up.
Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2011
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, 2011.