[CCHS] Fwd: CCHS Summer Reading - please forward to Parent email list

[Louisa Coleman]

Louise Coleman
Concord-Carlisle High School
500 Walden Street
Concord, MA  01742
lcoleman at colonial.net
978-341-2490 x7101

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One School One Book
CCHS READS
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Three Cups of Tea: 
One man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations - one school at a
time.
By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Summary:
One day in 1993, high up in the world's most inhospitable mountains, Greg
Mortenson wandered lost and alone, broken in body and spirit, after a
failed attempt to climb K2, the world's deadliest peak. When the people of
an impoverished village in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya took him in and
nursed him back to health, Mortenson made an impulsive promise: He would
return one day and build them a school. Although he was a homeless
"climbing bum" living out of his aging Buick in Berkeley, California,
Mortenson sold what few possessions he had to launch one of the most
remarkable humanitarian campaigns of our time." "Three Cups of Tea traces
Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build schools, especially for girls,
throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al
Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism - poverty and
ignorance - by providing both girls and boys with a balanced, nonextremist
education. Mortenson must survive a kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged
mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and
wrenching separations from his family." "Today, as the director of the
Central Asia Institute, Mortenson has built fifty-five schools serving
Pakistan and Afghanistan's poorest communities. And as this real-life
Indiana Jones from Montana crisscrosses the Himalaya and the Hindu Kush
fighting to keep these schools functioning, he provides not only hope to
tens of thousands of children, but living proof that one passionately
dedicated person truly can change the world.

Join the CCHS community in a shared reading experience.  All are invited
to participate. Students will have opportunities for book discussion,
planning programs and events, and shaping a global experience for CCHS.

http://cchsoneschoolonebook.concordcarlisle.wikispaces.net/

Questions?  Email CCHS Librarian: Mrs. Cicchetti (rcicchetti at colonial.net)
Put Three Cups of Tea in the subject line.
Have a great summer, read a lot, see you in September!


Robin Cicchetti, LMS
Concord - Carlisle High School Library
500 Walden Street
Concord, MA 01742
rcicchetti at colonial.net

Robin is currently reading
Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife  
by Sam Savage 




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