Girl rising changing the world one girl at a time
Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls' education, created a film that chronicled the stories of nine girls in the developing world, allowing viewers the opportunity to witness how education can break the cycle of poverty. Now, award-winning author Tanya Lee Stone deftly uses new research to illum...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2017]
|
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls' education, created a film that chronicled the stories of nine girls in the developing world, allowing viewers the opportunity to witness how education can break the cycle of poverty. Now, award-winning author Tanya Lee Stone deftly uses new research to illuminate the dramatic facts behind the film, focusing both on the girls captured on camera and many others. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 193 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Audience: | Age 12-up. Grade 9 to 12. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-174) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780553511468 (trade : alk. paper) 0553511467 (trade : alk. paper) 9780553511475 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 0553511475 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 9780553511499 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0553511491 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Author Notes: | Tanya Lee Stone studied English at Oberlin College and was an editor of children's nonfiction for many years. She also has a Masters Degree. She teaches writing at Champlain College. After many years as an editor. Tanya moved to Vermont and returned to writing. This award-winning author has written titles that include the young adult novel, A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl, Up Close: Ella Fitzgerald , picture books Elizabeth Leads the Way, Sandy's Circus, and Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? She has also written narrative nonfiction with her titles: Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, and The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie. In 2014 her title, Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) |
