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    [year] => 2022
    [artist] => Peggy Thomas
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    [language] => ENGLISH
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    [title] => Hero for the Hungry
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    [synopsis] => A moving and informative biography of the 20th-century American agriculture scientist whose innovations in crop varieties 
founded the Green Revolution and fed hundreds of millions of people 
around the world - with full-color chapter illustrations and STEM - and 
history-themed text features throughout.
	Can a quiet Iowa farm boy grow up to change the world? Norman Ernest Borlaug did. Born in 1914, raised on a small farm, and educated in a one-room 
schoolhouse, Norman Borlaug learned to work hard and excelled in sports,
 and later studied forestry in college, eventually becoming a plant 
scientist. Readers will discover how even from a young age Norman Borlaug dedicated his life's work to ending world 
hunger. Working in obscurity in the wheat fields of Mexico in the 50s 
and 60s, Norm and his team developed disease-resistant plants, and when 
widespread famine threatened India and Pakistan, Norm worked alongside 
poor farmers, battled bureaucracy, and fearlessly stood up to heads of 
state to save millions of lives from mass starvation. 
	Often called the "Father of the Green Revolution," Norm helped lay the 
groundwork for agricultural technological advances that alleviated world
 hunger, and he went on to win the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1970. He was
 a true hero for the hungry. 
	Text features throughout the book include: Sidebars on the science of plant hybridization and pathology Norman was using to produce new and better wheat varieties Information on a range of agriculture and plant life concepts, including agronomy, 
wheat genes, photoperiodism, stem rust, nutrients and more.
	Back matter including a timeline of events and discoveries, and a call to 
action for readers to think about how they can use science to solve 
problems and how they can do small things to help with hunger and food 
waste Hero for the Hungry is excellent for a science class learning about genetics, an 
agriculture class studying agronomy, or a history or English class 
looking for a well-written biography on a hero scientist. Sam Kalda is an illustrator and artist based in Saint Paul. His commissioned works include editorial, book, advertising and pattern 
illustration. In 2017, he received a gold medal in book illustration 
from the Society of Illustrators in New York. He also won a medal from 
the Cheese Club in college for being able to identify the most amount 
of, well, cheeses. His first book, Of Cats and Men: History's Great 
Cat-loving Artists, Writers, Thinkers and Statesmen, was published by 
Ten Speed Press in 2017. He recently illustrated his first picture book,
 When We Walked on the Moon, written by David Long and published by Wide
 Eyed Press in 2019, as well as the follow-up, When Darwin Sailed the 
Sea.
 Peggy Thomas has always loved true stories, and can't remember a time when she wasn't thrilled to find animal bones, musty encyclopaedias, or a
 history plaque by the side of the road. It's that same curiosity that 
has fueled the research and writing of more than twenty nonfiction books
 for children.
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    [subtitle] => The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug
    [publisher] => Feeding Minds Press
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