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Thomson, Sarah L.
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Mortenson, Greg -- Juvenile literature.
Girls' schools -- Pakistan -- Juvenile literature.
Girls' schools -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile literature.
Humanitarian assistance, American -- Pakistan -- Juvenile literature.
Humanitarian assistance, American -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile literature.
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Thomson, Sarah L.
Mortenson, Greg -- Juvenile literature.
Girls' schools -- Pakistan -- Juvenile literature.
Girls' schools -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile literature.
Humanitarian assistance, American -- Pakistan -- Juvenile literature.
Humanitarian assistance, American -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile literature.
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Three cups of tea / Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin ; adapted for young readers by Sarah Thomson ; [foreword by Jane Goodall].
by
Thomson, Sarah L.
Puffin Books, c2009.
Call #:
371
.82295
M887t
Subjects
Mortenson, Greg -- Juvenile literature.
Girls' schools -- Pakistan -- Juvenile literature.
Girls' schools -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile literature.
Humanitarian assistance, American -- Pakistan -- Juvenile literature.
Humanitarian assistance, American -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780142414125 (pbk.)
0142414123 (pbk.)
9780803733923 (hc.)
Alternate title:
3 cups of tea
Edition:
Young readers ed.
Description:
xxiii, 209 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"One man's journey to change the world, one child at a time"-- Cover.
Includes a reader's guide and an inteview with Amira Mortenson, Greg Mortenson's daughter.
Contents:
Maps -- Foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall -- Introduction -- Failure -- Wrong side of the river -- I'm going to build you a school -- Growing up -- 580 letters, one check -- Hard way home -- Korphe at last -- Bridge before a school -- Hunting Ibex -- Building bridges -- Six days -- Beginnings -- Haji Ali's lesson -- Smile should be more than a memory -- Picture -- New schools-and more -- Running from war -- Too much to do -- Village called New York -- Afghanistan -- First educated women in Korphe -- Stones into schools -- Q&E with Amira Mortenson -- Time line -- Glossary -- Who's who in Three Cups of Tea -- Readers guide.
Summary:
An adaptation of the bestselling book about the American Greg Mortenson's building of over 60 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time: Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself -- at last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools.
Other authors:
Mortenson, Greg.
Relin, David Oliver.
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