Mimi's Village: And How Basic Health Care Transformed It

by Katie Smith Milway

Book Overview

In this fictionalized story about a real humanitarian problem facing many countries in the developing world today, readers meet Mimi, an ordinary girl from an ordinary family in Africa. When her younger sister, Nakkissi, gets very sick after drinking unsterilized water from the stream, Mimi learns firsthand how quickly things can go terribly wrong. With no health care provider close by, her whole family must travel on foot to a nearby village to see...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554537223
• ISBN13: 9781554537228
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.3" x 12.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7