Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony by Sobol, Richard

Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony

Junior Library Guild Selection Social Justice Literature Award, International Literacy Association (ILA) United Methodist Women Reading Program,...
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Author: Richard Sobol
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Language: English
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Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony by Sobol, Richard

Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony

Dhs. 134.28

Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony

Dhs. 134.28
Author: Richard Sobol
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Junior Library Guild Selection
Social Justice Literature Award, International Literacy Association (ILA)
United Methodist Women Reading Program, United Methodist Women

This stunning photo-essay for children is a story of coexistence, focusing on Jewish, Muslim, and Christian families in a Ugandan village who created a Fair Trade Coffee Cooperative and learned to live and work together peacefully.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, J. J. Keki, a Ugandan musician and coffee farmer, was in New York, about to visit the World Trade Center. Instead, J.J. witnessed the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. He came away from this event with strong emotions about religious conflict. Why should people be enemies because of their religions?

Back home in his village, J.J. was determined to find a way for people who held different religious beliefs to work together. He saw that the neighborhood children, from Jewish, Muslim, and Christian families, played with one another without a care about religion. Why not enlist their parents, all coffee farmers like himself, in a cooperative venture around a shared goal? Together they would grow, harvest, and sell their coffee. At the same time, they would bridge religious differences to work and live together peacefully.

Here is a rare and timely story of hope, economic cooperation, and religious harmony from an often struggling part of the world. From J.J.'s vision, his community has achieved what many people strive for: a growing peace.



Author: Richard Sobol
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Published: 12/31/2016
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.80h x 10.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781600604508
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 186789 / Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2016
School Library Journal 09/01/2016 pg. 181
Booklist 09/01/2016 pg. 98

About the Author
Sobol, Richard: - RICHARD SOBOL is an award-winning photojournalist who has created more than a dozen photo-essays for young readers. His books explore a wide range of wildlife, conservation, environmental, and cultural topics. While visiting Uganda, Sobol learned about a village where people of three faiths had come together in harmony in the aftermath of 9/11, and he was inspired to tell their story for children. Sobol's photographs have also appeared in several publications, including The New York Times, Audubon, People, and National Geographic. When not traveling and photographing the world, Sobol can be found in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he lives with his family. Find him online at richardsobol.com.

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