Three Cups of Tea: Young Reader's Edition (edit title/settings)

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• Greg Mortenson: Attempts to climb K2 in honor of his sister, Christa, but gets lost on the descent but finds himself with a whole new direction in life.

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• “"One Penney can move a mountin."”

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• Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them.”

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• “The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time you take tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family, and for our family, we are prepared to do anything, even die,” he went on, laying a hand on Greg’s own. “Dr. Greg, you must make time to share three cups of tea. We may be uneducated. But we are not stupid. We have lived and survived here a long time.”

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• “What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean,” he said, smiling warmly at his small audience. “But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

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• Ignorance breeds hatred, and the simplest way to stop that is to educate kids.

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• “I request America to look into our hearts,” he went on, “and see that the great majority of us are not terrorists, but good and simple people. Our land is stricken with poverty because we are without education. But today, another candle of knowledge has been lit. In the name of Allah the Almighty, may it light our way out of the darkness we find ourselves in.”

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• I’ve learned that terror doesn’t happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren’t being offered a bright enough future that they had a reason to choose life over death.”

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• He taught me, he taught all of us, that if you believe in yourself, you can accomplish anything.”

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• malnutrition. One out of three children died before the age of one.

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• “If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children,” Greg said in the article, “we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.”

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• “I wish that Westerners who misunderstand Muslims could have seen Syed Abbas in action that day,” Greg said. “They would see that most people who practice the true teachings of Islam, even conservative mullahs like Syed Abbas, believe in peace and justice, not in terror.”

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• CAI: CAI is a organization that Greg Mortensen created. Central Asia Institution

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• Hope: this book shows that with just one person you can give hope to so many people!

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Greg Mortenson (Author)
2. David Oliver Relin (Author)
3. Sarah L. Thomson (Author)

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• Library of Congress: ?
• Dewey: 371.82209549

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This was an awesome book. It wasn't too hard, some words were a little difficult but it had a glossary in the back. Also had a reader's guide (questions)

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• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Biographies › People of Color
• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Explore the World › Asia
• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Explore the World › Middle East

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