Righting Wrongs: The Story of Norman Bethune
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- Synopsis
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Short-listed for the 2002 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Norma Fleck Award
Norman Bethune was a doctor who devoted his life to helping others and whose story is a remarkable one, cut short by his early death in China in 1938.
This biography in our Stories of Canada series traces his life from his childhood spent moving around Ontario as a preacher’s son to his experiences in the First World War and his crusades to find a cure for tuberculosis and to promote health care in Canada.
But Bethune is most famous for the time he spent fighting Fascism through his profession of healing in Spain and China during the late 1930s. His story inspires us to believe that we can change the world through our actions.
- Copyright:
- 2001
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 72 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781459726338
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780929141718, 9781459727229
- Publisher:
- Dundurn
- Date of Addition:
- 12/11/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Sydell Waxman
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Children's Books, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Grade Levels:
- Sixth grade
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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