Winter, Jeanette

Tells the story of Wangari Maathai, a Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist who, shocked to see entire forests being cut down in her native country of Kenya, decides to take action, beginning with the planting of nine seedlings in her own backyard.

The story of champion tennis players--and sisters--Venus and Serena Williams.

"Tells the story of Greta Thunberg, a teenage Swedish climate activist who has sparked a worldwide student movement and is demanding action from world leaders who refuse to address climate change"--OCLC.

During the Iraq War of 2003, librarian Alia Muhammad saves thirty thousand new and old books in her Basra library from destruction.

An illustrated biography of British primatologist Jane Goodall, describing her childhood, the years she spent in the African forests to observe chimpanzees, and her efforts to protect and preserve primates and their habitats.

Profiles two young Pakistanis who risked their lives for human rights: anti-slavery activist Iqbal Masih, murdered in 1995; and education activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived a murder attempt and went on to win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.

Librarian Alia Muhammad Baker, concerned about the safety of the public library in Basra, Iraq, after the outbreak of war in 2003, begins moving books to other locations, managing to save over seventy percent of the collection before the building is destroyed by fire.

Luis has so many books in his little house in Colombia that he buys two donkeys and travels throughout the land bringing the joy of reading to children.