(4) YA Multicultural Literature series. This series successfully conveys the importance of each title's contribution to multicultural literature through a comprehensive introduction to the author, plot, characters, themes, and literary devices. Other works by each author are touched on. Photographs, maps, and highlighted vocabulary augment the discussion while providing a necessary break in the dense text. Students will find these useful as companion volumes. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Multicultural Literature titles: A Reader's Guide to Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, A Reader's Guide to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and A Reader's Guide to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(4) YA Multicultural Literature series. This series successfully conveys the importance of each title's contribution to multicultural literature through a comprehensive introduction to the author, plot, characters, themes, and literary devices. Other works by each author are touched on. Photographs, maps, and highlighted vocabulary augment the discussion while providing a necessary break in the dense text. Students will find these useful as companion volumes. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Multicultural Literature titles: A Reader's Guide to Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, A Reader's Guide to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and A Reader's Guide to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(3) 4-6 Women of Achievement series. These biographies of two American activists, both of them abolitionists and founders of the women's rights movement, describe in direct, lucid prose the lives and accomplishments of their subjects and the history of the era. The volumes are generously illustrated with nineteenth-century photos and drawings. Both books contain time lines. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam