2020 Green Earth Book Award Long list 2020 Crystal Kite Awards – Southeast Division Winner 2020-2021 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award List Notable Social Studies Trade Books list – Winning Title! 2019 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award – Winning Title Florida Book Award Gold Winner Recipient of the 2019 Eureka! Honors Award Winner -Best of 2019 Kids Books – Most Inspiring Category As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India’s Brahmaputra River. So he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo, grew over the years into 1,300 acre forest filled with native plants and animals. The Boy Who Grew a Forest tells the inspiring true story of Payeng–and reminds us all of the difference a single person with a big idea can make.
Author: Sophia Gholz
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 03/15/2019
Pages: 32
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 10.10h x 10.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781534110243
Language: English
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