| Who Was Mother Teresa? Bound for Schoo Edition Contributor(s): Gigliotti, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0606367500 ISBN-13: 9780606367509 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $15.64 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Religious (see Also Religious - Christian - Bio - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Women - Juvenile Nonfiction | Religion - Christianity |
| Dewey: B |
| Lexile Measure: 860 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 7.4" (0.45 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa shed her habit and walked the streets of Calcutta tending to the needs of the destitute. Her charity work soon expanded internationally, and her name remains synonymous with compassion and devotion to the poor. |