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Language
English
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"Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin....
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In Jane's Journey, we travel with her across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous. An inspiring portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon, featuring a wide range of interviews and spectacular footage from her own private collection...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A personal and scientific work on trees, forests, and the author's profound discoveries of tree communication"--
Simard illuminates the fascinating and vital truths: that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 890L
Language
English
Description
"Emma Gatewood's life was far from easy. In rural Ohio, she managed a household of 11 kids alongside a less-than-supportive husband. One day, at age 67, she decided to go for a nice long walk. and ended up completing the Appalachian Trail. With just the clothes on her back and a pair of thin canvas sneakers on her feet, Grandma Gatewood hiked up ridges and down ravines. She braved angry storms and witnessed breathtaking sunrises. When things got particularly...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
Tells a true story of Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, who introduced the idea of planting trees for peace to Kenyan citizens.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940, she was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most girls were uneducated. We see her become the first woman both in East and Central Africa to earn a PhD and to head a university department in Kenya. We witness her...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A conservationist who has dedicated her life to saving orphan elephants in Africa describes her relationships with her late husband, Tsavo Park warden David Sheldrick, and a host of animals, including the majestic elephant, Eleanor.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion, vision, and determination inspired great change.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In her enchanting memoir, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda's first wildlife veterinarian, tells the remarkable story from her animal-loving childhood to her career protecting endangered mountain gorillas and other wild animals. She is also the defender of people as a groundbreaking promoter of human public health and an advocate for revolutionary integrated approaches to saving our planet. In an increasingly interconnected world, animal and human...
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Series
Publisher
Rebel Girls, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the power of women's activism, learning about clever tactics and successes in the area of conservation and environmentalism with new and favorite tales from the "Goodnight stories for rebel girls" collections.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon"--
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