Seeds of change : planting a path to peace /

Johnson, Jen Cullerton.

Seeds of change : planting a path to peace / by Jen Cullerton Johnson ; illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler. - 1st ed. - New York : Lee & Low Books, c2010. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Coretta Scott King Award.

Includes bibliographical references.

"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.

160060367X : SAL $18.95 9781600603679

Lee & Low Books, 95 Madison Ave, New York, NY, USA, 10016, (212)7794400-26 SAN 219-5836

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Maathai, Wangari--Juvenile literature.
Maathai, Wangari.


Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)--Juvenile literature.
Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)


Tree planters (Persons)--Kenya--Biography--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.
Tree planters (Persons)
Women conservationists.
Women politicians.
Women--Biography.


Kenya--Environmental conditions--Juvenile literature.
Kenya--Biography--Juvenile literature.

SB63.M22 / J646 2010

333.72092