(4) 4-6 Candlewick Biographies series. Illustrated by Paul Lee. Phillis Wheatley's experience of being sold into slavery and her growth as a poet are, along with some fictionalized elements, set against the events of the American Revolution. Although Lasky milks the story for sentiment and handles some of the racial issues clumsily, she does convey the extraordinary quality of Wheatley's achievements. Workmanlike acrylics illustrate scenes from Wheatley's life in this "reformatted edition."

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Paul Lee. Phillis Wheatley's experience of being sold into slavery and her growth as a poet are, along with some fictionalized elements, set against the events of the American Revolution. Although Lasky milks the story for sentiment and handles some of the racial issues clumsily, she does convey the extraordinary quality of Wheatley's achievements. Workmanlike acrylics illustrate scenes from Wheatley's life.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Paul Lee. Golenbock describes the paradoxical experience of Hank Aaron, the baseball star who broke Babe Ruth's lifetime home-run record but endured numerous threats to his life as he pursued his goal. An especially good cover portrait and many effective oil paintings extend the well-synthesized telling and underscore the variety of emotions explored in the text.

Reviewer: Amy Lois Cohn

(3) 4-6 On the deadly Middle Passage, the African Cinque leads a successful shipboard mutiny. Tricked by the surviving crew into thinking the ship is returning to Africa, Cinque and his fellow Africans end up in a Connecticut prison but win their freedom in a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. Somber artwork illustrates the true story, which is embellished with imagined dialogue.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.