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Mountains Beyond Mountains

Michael French, Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder's critically acclaimed adult nonfiction work, Mountains Beyond Mountains has been adapted for young people by Michael French. In this young adult edition, readers are introduced to Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard-educated doctor with a self-proclaimed mission to transform healthcare on a global scale. Farmer focuses his attention on some of the world's most impoverished people and uses unconventional ways in which to provide healthcare, to achieve real results and save lives.

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Book Details

Genre:

Historical Nonfiction

Age Level:

12 and up

Mountains Beyond Mountains review by AKFeldman

AKFeldman

Mountains Beyond Mountains, written in the point of view of the author, Tracy Kidder, is a biography of a doctor named Paul Farmer. Kidder first met Dr. Farmer in Haiti in 1994, and they began to correspond. These two men met again in Boston, where Dr. Farmer invited Kidder to accompany him on his flight back to Haiti. In Haiti, Kidder begins to chronicle the marvelous true story that is Dr. Paul Farmer's life, and sets out to show the world how much good one man can do.