Who Was Mother Teresa?
Who Was Mother Teresa?
Gigliotti, Jim
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Annotation: Presents the life of Roman Catholic nun Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
Genre: [Biographies]
 
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Catalog Number: #100782
Format: Perma-Bound Edition
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright Date: 2015
Edition Date: 2015 Release Date: 05/05/15
Illustrator: Groff, David,
Pages: 105 pages
ISBN: Publisher: 0-448-48299-1 Perma-Bound: 0-605-86982-0
ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-448-48299-6 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-86982-0
Dewey: 921
Dimensions: 20 cm.
Subject Heading:
Teresa,. Mother,. 1910-1997. Juvenile literature.
Teresa,. Mother,. 1910-1997.
Nuns. India. Biography. Juvenile literature.
Missionaries. India. Biography. Juvenile literature.
Nuns. India.
Missionaries. India.
Language: English
Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-105).
Word Count: 6,860
Reading Level: 5.7
Interest Level: 4-7
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.7 / points: 1.0 / quiz: 174413 / grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:5.6 / points:4.0 / quiz:Q66227
Lexile: 860L
Guided Reading Level: W
Fountas & Pinnell: W

Mother Teresa stared out the window of the train as it made its way from the crowded city of Calcutta, India, to the mountain resort town of Darjeeling in September 1946.

The Indian countryside was very beautiful. But the train ride took many hours. With lots of twists and turns and zigzags to get up the mountain, the train moved slowly. That was okay, though. It gave Mother Teresa plenty of time to think.

Mother Teresa was traveling from St. Mary’s School for girls to her annual retreat in Darjeeling. A retreat is a good place to get away from the noise and distractions of everyday life, and to spend quiet time in prayer and reflection. It was the perfect time to think about God and to get energized for the coming school year.


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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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