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Claire A. Nivola

Claire A. Nivola

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“ Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ” ― Matsuo Basho
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  • Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty

    2010·
    ·4.14·314 Ratings
    Give me your tired,  your poorYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free...Who wrote these words?  And why? In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe, wrote a sonnet that was to give voice to the Statue of Lib
  • Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle

    2012·
    ·4.06·853 Ratings
    Sylvia Earle first lost her heart to the ocean as a young girl when she discovered the wonders of the Gulf of Mexico in her backyard. As an adult, she dives even deeper. Whether she's designing submersibles, swimming with the whales, or taking deep-water
  • Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai

    2008·
    ·4.22·586 Ratings
    Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years
  • Orani: My Father's Village

    2011·
    ·3.92·251 Ratings
    One of School Library Journal’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011One of Horn Book’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011As a child, Claire Nivola loved summers in Orani, the village where her father grew up and where her many aunts, uncles, and 50 cousins still
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