Who was Mother Teresa?- Biography/ Jim Gigliotti ; illustrated by Nancy Harrison.

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Gigliotti, Jim [author.]

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TextSeries: Who was-- ?Publisher: New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015Description: illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0698412117
9780698412118

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Electronic books.

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Biography

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Summary: Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa shed her habit and walked the streets of Calcutta tending to the needs of the destitute. Her charity work soon expanded internationally, and her name remains synonymous with compassion and devotion to the poor.

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Graded Reader	Rabdan Academy Fiction	Fiction	Biography (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	157740

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Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa shed her habit and walked the streets of Calcutta tending to the needs of the destitute. Her charity work soon expanded internationally, and her name remains synonymous with compassion and devotion to the poor.

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