Girl rising : changing the world one girl at a time / Tanya Lee Stone in association the GirlRising.
Title:
Girl rising : changing the world one girl at a time / Tanya Lee Stone in association the GirlRising.
ISBN:
9780553511468
9780553511475
9780553511499
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
©2017
Physical Description:
193 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Contents:
Why (and how) a film became a book -- The stakes -- The stories. Modern-day slavery ; Child marriage ; Limited access, or none at all -- The solutions. Can we change the world? ; Girls rising.
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.
Interest age level:
Age 12-up.
Interest grade level:
Grade 9 to 12.
Audience:
1050L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn925354749
Availability:
South St. Paul - Kaposia~1
