One Peace: True Stories of Activities

One Peace: True Stories of Young Activists (Orca Book Publishers, October 2008) By Janet Wilson. One Peace celebrates the "Power of One," and specifically the accomplishments of children from around the globe who have worked to promote world peace. Janet Wilson challenges today's children to strive to make a difference in this beautifully illustrated, fact-filled and fascinating volume of portraits of many "heroes for today." Canadian Craig Kielburger, who started Free the Children to help victims of child labor at the age of twelve, has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. Farlis Calle, forced to identify the body of a young friend-a victim of her country's civil war, started the Columbia Children's Movement for Peace. Other portraits feature the accomplishments of children from Sarajevo, Japan, Liberia, the United Kingdom, Cambodia, Afghanistan and the United States. These moving testaments to the courage and initiative of youth will inspire readers young and old.