Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People) by Tracy Kidder

Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People) by Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder's critically acclaimed adult nonfiction work, Mountains Beyond Mountains has been adapted for young people by Michael French. In this young adult edition, readers are introduced to Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard-educated doctor with a self-proclaimed mission to transform healthcare on a global scale. Farmer focuses his attention on some of the world's most impoverished people and uses unconventional ways in which to provide healthcare, to achieve real results and save lives.

Michael French is the author of twenty-four works, including adult and young adult novels, art criticism, biographies, adaptations, and gender studies. He received his bachelor's degree in English from Stanford University and his master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He is a successful businessman, an active high-altitude mountain trekker, a world traveler to underdeveloped nations, an activist, and, with his wife, Patricia, a philanthropist raising money for initiatives that help teachers in Santa Fe, N.M., public schools, which are among the country's most challenged.