(4) YA Remembering the Holocaust series. This updated series provides report writers with a decent overview of the Holocaust, including events surrounding Hilter's rise to power, major figures, atrocities, and resistance efforts. Each edition includes helpful maps and one or two poorly reproduced black-and-white archival photos in an uninspired design. The volumes will be useful for report writing but should be supported with more in-depth books. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Remembering the Holocaust titles: Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Warsaw, Lodz, Vilna, Anti-Semitism and the "Final Solution", Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka, Schindler, Wallenberg, Miep Gies, and Wiesel, Wiesenthal, Klarsfeld.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(4) YA Remembering the Holocaust series. This updated series provides report writers with a decent overview of the Holocaust, including events surrounding Hilter's rise to power, major figures, atrocities, and resistance efforts. Each edition includes helpful maps and one or two poorly reproduced black-and-white archival photos in an uninspired design. The volumes will be useful for report writing but should be supported with more in-depth books. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Remembering the Holocaust titles: Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Warsaw, Lodz, Vilna, Anti-Semitism and the "Final Solution", Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka, Schindler, Wallenberg, Miep Gies, and Wiesel, Wiesenthal, Klarsfeld.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(4) YA Holocaust Through Primary Sources series. This series covers various aspects of the Holocaust. Interspersed throughout the historical narratives are recollections by people who were there; text boxes with handwriting font signals first-person accounts. Some stock photos and occasional pictures supplied by the witnesses add immediacy. The writing and organization of material are uneven, but the volumes are useful nonetheless. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Holocaust Through Primary Sources titles: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Rescuing the Danish Jews, Saving Children from the Holocaust, Auschwitz, Kristallnacht, and Liberation.

Reviewer: Amy Kellman

(4) YA Holocaust Through Primary Sources series. This series covers various aspects of the Holocaust. Interspersed throughout the historical narratives are recollections by people who were there; text boxes with handwriting font signals first-person accounts. Some stock photos and occasional pictures supplied by the witnesses add immediacy. The writing and organization of material are uneven, but the volumes are useful nonetheless. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Holocaust Through Primary Sources titles: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Rescuing the Danish Jews, Saving Children from the Holocaust, Auschwitz, Kristallnacht, and Liberation.

Reviewer: Amy Kellman

(3) YA True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust series. This series presents firsthand accounts of teens' horrific experiences during the Holocaust. Descriptions of death camps, Kristallnacht, ghettos, and the roundup of Jews are vividly portrayed. Photographs, lists of resources, and chapter notes make the information accessible and encourage further reading. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust titles: Escape--Teens on the Run, Hidden Teens, Hidden Lives, Shattered Youth in Nazi Germany, Courageous Teen Resisters, Trapped--Youth in the Nazi Ghettos, and Youth Destroyed--the Nazi Camps.

Reviewer: Amy Kellman

(3) YA True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust series. This series presents firsthand accounts of teens' horrific experiences during the Holocaust. Descriptions of death camps, Kristallnacht, ghettos, and the roundup of Jews are vividly portrayed. Photographs, lists of resources, and chapter notes make the information accessible and encourage further reading. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust titles: Escape--Teens on the Run, Hidden Teens, Hidden Lives, Shattered Youth in Nazi Germany, Courageous Teen Resisters, Trapped--Youth in the Nazi Ghettos, and Youth Destroyed--the Nazi Camps.

Reviewer: Amy Kellman

(3) YA True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust series. This series presents firsthand accounts of teens' horrific experiences during the Holocaust. Descriptions of death camps, Kristallnacht, ghettos, and the roundup of Jews are vividly portrayed. Photographs, lists of resources, and chapter notes make the information accessible and encourage further reading. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust titles: Escape--Teens on the Run, Hidden Teens, Hidden Lives, Shattered Youth in Nazi Germany, Courageous Teen Resisters, Trapped--Youth in the Nazi Ghettos, and Youth Destroyed--the Nazi Camps.

Reviewer: Amy Kellman

(4) 4-6 American Saga series. Byers explores the causes and consequences of American immigration from colonial days to modern times, augmenting summaries of various time periods and ethnic groups with archival photos and sidebars about well-known immigrants. The dry but well-sourced account touches on post-9/11 concerns as well as the effects of racism and isolationism on American policy. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Amy Lois Cohn

(4) 4-6 Slavery in American History series. Judicious middle school researchers may find some interesting tidbits in the source documents collected in these books, but most readers will find the books dull. Archival illustrations accompany the texts. Each volume contains a timeline, chapter notes, selected readings, and additional resources. Glos., ind. Review covers these Slavery in American History titles: The Politics of Slavery, African-American History from Emancipation to Today and Slave Life on the Plantation.

Reviewer: Deborah L. Thompson

(3) YA Hot Issues series. Pregnancy dissects the cost of teen parenthood to their children, society, and the teens themselves; Stalking discusses the issue in general terms but also focuses on teens' vulnerability. Both books are interested in larger cultural themes, such as how the media influences teen sexuality and encourages celebrity fixations. Cautionary anecdotes, photos, and sidebars reinforce the authors' points. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) YA Hot Issues series. If they get past the dull covers, teens writing school reports or looking for specific help and information will find that these two books present their topics clearly and reasonably thoroughly. Byers's stories about actual individuals are less successful because of their didactic and dire tone; Goodnough's are more balanced. Color photos and illustrations are included. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee

(3) YA Holocaust Remembered series. These books begin with general information about the economic and social origins of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism in Europe, followed by a more detailed look at specific topics, including resistance movements and the creation of the state of Israel. The books will be useful for report writing but should be supported with more in-depth books. Chronologies, black-and-white photographs, and maps are included. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(3) YA Holocaust Remembered series. Looking at day-to-day life, resistance efforts, and individual acts of defiance and compliance in the Jewish ghettos, Altman focuses on the 1939-1944 period, when Jews were forcibly relocated into ghettos throughout Eastern Europe. Byers provides a context for Hitler's rise to power before discussing the conditions, atrocities, and ultimate use of the Nazi concentration camps. Both books, which contain archival photos, paint realistic pictures of these instruments of Hitler's final solution. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.