Follett Content Book Detail: Wangari's Trees of Peace : a True Story From Africa by Winter, Jeanette

Wangari's Trees of Peace : a True Story From Africa

Author: Winter, Jeanette

Follett Number: 1359AL7
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008
Format: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Dewey: 333.72
Classifications: Biography; Nonfiction

Subjects:
Biographies
Conservationists
Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)
Kenyans Biography
Maathai, Wangari
Picture Books
Politicians
Tree Planters (Persons)
Women Biography
Tells the story of Wangari Maathai, a Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist who, shocked to see entire forests being cut down in her native country of Kenya, decides to take action, beginning with the planting of nine seedlings in her own backyard.

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