(4) 4-6 Science Quest series. This book incorporates scientists' biographies within the social and scientific histories of radiation experimentation. A running timeline helps clarify events, but Jerome uses scientific terms (e.g., atomic weight, Crooke's tube) without sufficient explanation. The page layout is clean and generally well designed (although one spread shows a full-page, full-color atomic explosion opposite the chapter head "Contributions"). Websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

(3) 4-6 Who Was...? series. Illustrated by David Cain. These short, illustrated books capture the lives of famous individuals with accessible prose. Each book spends considerable time explaining the childhood experiences of its subject and manages to give readers a sense of the individual's personality and motives. All but Tallchief and Houdini have bibliographies. Timeline. [Review covers these Who Was...? titles: Who Is Maria Tallchief?, Who Was Amelia Earhart?, Who Was Harriet Tubman?, Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?, and Who Was Harry Houdini?.]

Reviewer: Lauren Aimonette LIang