Three Cups Of Tea : Young Reader's Edition

Loved, loved, loved this book! I just don't even know if there is anything else I can say about it other than I LOVED IT!

The difficulties that Greg Mortenson had to go through to get schools built in remoter areas of Pakistan were so fascinating and yet so heartbreaking. Greg is definitely a man with a heart too big for his body, too big for the planet.

Three Cups of Tea covers the 10 years that Greg Mortenson worked to raise money to build schools in areas near K2. The story follows his work in Pakistan as well as in Montana, as he sought out donors for financing and eventually ended up creating the Central Asia Institute, dedicated to building schools for the children of Pakistan, and later Afghanistan.

This is an engaging story and very heartwarming. Ultimately, the message is that children everywhere deserve to be educated, and education is the best weapon against ignorance, prejudice and intolerance.