Threads of Peace: How Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Changed the World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481416788)

"Inviting and original." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Mohandas Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. both shook and changed the world in their quest for peace among all people, but what threads connected these great activists together in their shared goal of social revolution?

A lawyer and activist, tiny of stature with giant ideas, in British-ruled India at the beginning of the 20th century.

A minister from Georgia with a thunderous voice and hopes for peace at the height of the civil rights movement in America.

Born more than a half-century apart, with seemingly little in common except one shared wish, both would go on to be icons of peaceful resistance and human decency. Both preached love for all human beings, regardless of race or religion. Both believed that freedom and justice were won by not one, but many. Both met their ends in the most unpeaceful of ways--assassination.

But what led them down the path of peace? How did their experiences parallel...and diverge? Threads of Peace keenly examines and celebrates these extraordinary activists' lives, the threads that connect them, and the threads of peace they laid throughout the world, for us to pick up, and weave together.

Author: Uma Krishnaswami
ISBN-10: 1481416782
ISBN-13: 9781481416788
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2021
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.13h x 7.80w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 513566 / Threads of Peace: How Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Changed the World


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2021
Booklist 08/01/2021 pg. 46
School Library Journal 10/01/2021 pg. 108