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Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Argues that author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, noted for his campaign to open schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, has not been truthful about his past, his reasons for opening schools, or his abduction by the Taliban.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the bestselling book about the American Greg Mortenson's building of over 60 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 1993 Greg Mortenson tried to climb K2. On the way down he became lost in the mountains of Pakistan and stumbles into a poor village. The villager chief offers him three cups of tea and the villagers nurse Mortenson back to health. Moved by their kindness, he promises to return and build a school for their children....
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