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Hirschfelder, Arlene
4 Reviews
(3)
K-3
Children from all fifty states and the District of Columbia are featured in engaging photos that showcase the diversity of the country. Each double-page spread focuses on a particular city or town (Providence, Rhode Island; Cheyenne, Wyoming) and includes some information about life in that community. The book barely skims the surface, but readers will return for diverting browsing. Reading list, websites. Ind.
Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt
(4)
4-6
Photos of contemporary Native American children are the best part of this book that seeks to break down stereotypes. The text is divided into twenty-six double-page spreads, with some sections focusing on a single tribe, while others feature a group or confederacy. Volumes in Lerner's We Are Still Here series, with their single-tribe/single-child perspective, are more reader-friendly. Reading list. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Debbie Reese
(3)
YA
Carvalho, an Orthodox Jew from Baltimore with no wilderness experience, accompanied John Frémont as daguerreotype photographer on his expedition to find a railroad route over the Rockies to the Pacific. Archival drawings and photos illustrate this exciting account, based largely on Carvalho's diaries and letters, of a young man's survival of a mountain winter. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Pamela McCuen
(3)
4-6
Employing a design and a tone far more dynamic than is typical in hortatory nonfiction, this volume is really several books in one: a history of cigarette marketing and use; a showcase for inspirational stories of kids who took action against smoking; and a list of quick tobacco facts and resources for activists to use in their own attempts to "kick butts." Bib., ind.
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