Published in 2020
128 pages
Rebel Girls is an award-winning media company on a mission to raise a generation of confident girls and create a more equal world. Through vivid storytelling and compelling multimedia content, we encourage girls to explore, learn, and dream without limits. This organic message of female empowerment is free from forced stereotypes traditionally imposed on young girls and gives them real life heroines for inspiration.
What is this book about?
From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the historical novel based on the life of Dr. Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist from Kenya.
Wangari lives in a magical place in rural Kenya where the soil is rich for planting, the trees abundant, and the nearby pond full of mysterious creatures. She drinks from cool, clean streams and plays beneath her favorite fig tree under her mother’s watchful gaze.
Then Wangari grows up and goes away to school, and things start changing at home. Farmers chop down the trees. Landslides bury the stream. The pond dries up. The soil becomes overworked, dry, and unusable for planting. And people go hungry. Dr. Wangari Maathai has a simple solution to all of these problems: plant trees.
