"This is the story of Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari came home from college to find the streams dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. How could she alone bring back the trees and restore the gardens and the people?"--Jacket
Themes
Genres: Non-Fiction
Categories: Beautiful Life, Biography
Content: Economic Struggle, STEM
Settings: Africa, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Northern America, United States of America
Ethnicity: Kenyan
Gender: Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American
Character Prominence: Dominant Main