Stories from Around the World

Cover: Walk With Me, by Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng. Cover illustration: A girl with long dark hair offers a flower to a gigantic lion. The lion watches the girl intently.

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Wangari Speaks Out. Speech by WANGARI MAATHAI. Commentary by LAIA DE AHUMADA. Translation by SUSAN OURIOU. Illustrations by VANINA STARKOFF. A smiling woman with brown skin, black hair, an orange and black patterned dress and matching headscarf holds a pot with a tree sapling growing out of it.

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Wangari Maathai was the first African woman and first environmentalist to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Her speech is part of the Speak Out series.

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Cover: Words Matter. The Story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and the White Rose Resistance. Written by Anita Fitch Pazner and illustrated by Sophie Casson. Two German soldiers march beside each other with their shadows on a tall brick wall. They wear green helmets, long-sleeved jackets and pants with knee-high brown leather boots and carry long brown guns. Behind the wall, a young girl and boy peek around the corner at the soldiers. The girl holds a brown suitcase. A white rose grows at the base of the wall.

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