Who Was Mother Teresa? (Who Was?)

by Jim Gigliotti (Author) David Groff (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: Who Was?

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.

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Jim Gigliotti
Jim Gigliotti is a freelance writer based in Southern California. A former editor at the National Football League, he has written more than 50 books for all ages. His writing credits include biographies for young readers on Olympian Jesse Owens and baseball star Roberto Clemente.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780448482996
Lexile Measure
860
Guided Reading Level
R
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
May 05, 2015
Series
Who Was?
BISAC categories
JNF007080 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Religious
JNF007120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
JNF049080 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Religion | Christianity
Library of Congress categories
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