Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy

by John Wood

Book Overview

The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive's quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books What's happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of thirty-five, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142180505
• ISBN13: 9780142180501
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher