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1) Stones into schools: promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Author

Mortenson, Greg

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 19

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

Description

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A follow-up to "Three Cups of Tea" continues the author's story of his humanitarian efforts to bring education into disadvantaged Middle East regions, describing such events as the 2005 earthquake and a tense eight-day abduction by the Taliban.

2) Three cups of tea: one man's mission to promote peace-- one school at a time

Author

Mortenson, Greg

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 23

Lexile measure

1220L

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

Description

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One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of...

3) Three cups of tea : one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations-- one school at a time

Author

Mortenson, Greg

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 23

Lexile measure

1220L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eBook, Kindle

Description

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4) Afghanistan contracts: an overview : hearing before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred...

Author

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight

Series

S. hrg volume 111-792

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Microfilm

5) Afghanistan: the humanitarian crisis and U.S. response: hearing before the Subcommittee on near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventeenth...

Author

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism

Series

S. hrg volume 117-278

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

6) Protecting certain property of Da Afghanistan Bank for the benefit of the people of Afghanistan: communication from the President of the United States transmitting an executive order protecting certain property of Da Afghanistan Bank, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1621(a); Public...

Author

United States. President (2021- : Biden)

Series

House document volume 117-90

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

7) Emergency supplemental appropriations request: communication from the President of the United States transmitting Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United...

Author

United States. President (2001-2009 : Bush)

Series

House document

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

8) Continuation of the national emergency with respect to the widespread humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and the potential for a deepening economic collapse in Afghanistan: communication from the President of the United States transmitting notification that the national emergency with respect to the widespread humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and...

Author

United States. President (2021- : Biden)

Series

House document volume 118-6

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

9) Three cups of tea

Author

Thomson, Sarah L

Pub. Date

2009.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7

Lexile measure

910L

Language

English

Description

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A middle-grade adapted version of the New York Times bestseller about humanitarianism and providing Muslim children around the world with an education is enhanced with photos, maps, illustrations, and a special afterword by the author's daughter who worked with him as an advocate for the Pennies for Peace program.