This one isn't on the Kentucky Book Award list, but if I could add it the curriculum I would. I listened to this book over the summer, and I loved it. It is a true story of one man's mission to educate people in Pakistan, and it gives great insight into the importance of education. This book is a serious MUST READ!
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“Three Cups of Tea” Greg Mortenson
“Three cups of Tea” is a true story about one mans determination to keep a promise that changed the world and futures of many Pakistan and Afghanistan children. The author and man who experienced it all, Greg Mortenson began his adventure when he was climbing Pakistan’s K2, which is the world’s second highest mountain. As he was climbing he became disoriented and stopped his climb and then ran into an extremely small in poor village, where the children weren’t educated because they didn’t have enough money to pay for pencils or teachers. The village nursed him back to health and before he left to go back home, he promised them he would return and build a school. He went home and collected money and ended up building 78 schools. My impression of the book is that it was very life changing, not only for him but the readers to, his courage and bravery really made readers think about what they could do to better the world. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the book and to me truly helped to promote world peace. This book should defiantly win the KY Bluegrass award for 2009 because it is not only an amazing story, but it is true and will promote people to get out and better the world one step at a time. One aspect of the book that I found interesting was his stories of threats and hatred from Americans after 9/11, because I feel that it is wrong for Americans to punish and criticize children in Pakistan and Afghanistan for something they have no part in, and that only a small portion of their countries participated in. I read two reviews of this book, the first one called “The blueprint for making a difference” by Sam Carpenter was about how life changing and inspiring the book is, I agree completely with this review because since it is a true story I find it completely inspiring as well. The second review, “Inspiring story, told poorly” by Doc Peterson is about how he thought that the story was inspiring and a wonderful story, but that the writing technique was sophomoric and poor. I completely disagree with this one mainly because I thought the writing was fine, it wasn’t magnificent, but it didn’t need to be because the story itself was enough to make the book a winner.
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