inZone Books: Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna (Reader's Workshop) - Softcover

Lekuton, Joseph Lemasolai; Smith, Michael W

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9780736231336: inZone Books: Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna (Reader's Workshop)

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ISBN 10: 0736231331 ISBN 13: 9780736231336

Publisher: National Geographic School Pub, 2006

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Lemasolai lives in Kenya and believes he will raise cows and live as a tribesman, but then he volunteers to go to school and his life changes for ever. Can Lemasolai live in two worlds at once?

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About the Author:

Professor, College of Education Temple University Dr. Michael Smith joined the ranks of college teachers after eleven years of teaching high school English. He has won awards for his teaching at both the high school and college levels. His research focuses on how experienced readers read and talk about texts, as well as what motivates adolescents' reading and writing both in and out of school. He has written eight books and monographs, including "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys": Literacy in the Lives of Young Men, for which he and his co-author received the 2003 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English. His writing has appeared in such journals as Communication Education, English Journal, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Literacy Research, and Research in the Teaching of English.

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