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Book

Threads of peace : how Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. changed the world

Call Number

  • J 920 KRIS (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2021]

Physical Description

325 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm

Audience

Ages 9-14. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Summary

"A look at the lives of Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. and how they were led to seek revolution through peace"--

Notes

"A Caitlyn Dlouhy book"

Contents

  • Threads of peace: the right to take a seat
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. A place of warm breezes ; The ocean of life ; Obedience and disobedience ; Questions large and small ; A lawyer abroad ; In search of truth ; Marching for freedom ; New cloth, frayed fabric ; "I must now tear myself away"
  • Martin Luther King Jr. The curtain of discrimination ; Message of truth ; Don't ride the buses ; Against the Constitution ; Actions louder than words ; In Gandhi's footsteps ; After India ; Knowing the enemy ; Bombingham ; "Free at last, free at last" ; Champion of peace ; Bloody Sunday ; No compromise ; "Precious Lord, take my hand"
  • When the thread break. The assassins ; Spinning new threads of peace.

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