One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
by Miranda Paul and Elizabeth Zunon • Related Edition: Spanish-Language
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- Grade
- PK-6
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- Women / Girls
- African
Year Published 2015
Word Count 830
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 570L
- ATOS Reading Level: 2.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 170587, 0.5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- Science
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Plastic bags
- Africa, West
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Science
- Pollution
- Recycling (Waste, etc.)
- Plastic bag craft
- Ceesay, Isatou
- Pollution--Africa, West--Juvenile literature
- Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Africa, West--Juvenile literature
- Wolof (African people)
- Recycling (Waste)
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection
- Ceesay, Isatou--Juvenile literature
- Wolof (African people)--Juvenile literature
- Plastic bags--Africa, West--Juvenile literature
- Plastic bag craft--Africa, West--Juvenile literature
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Awards & Distinctions 8
Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2025
Honor, 2016
Children's Africana Book Awards, 1992-2025
Commended, 2016
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Environment, Energy, Ecology Selection, 2016
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2015
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