(4) YA Modern Peacemakers series. These biographies of Nobel Peace Prize winners provide windows into worldwide political and social issues. Triumphs and controversies surrounding the winners (e.g., inaccuracies in Menchú's autobiography) are covered using primary and secondary sources. More photographs would have been useful to break up long discussions of complex issues. There are six other spring 2007 books in this series. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Modern Peacemakers titles: Desmond Tutu, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Mother Teresa, Elie Wiesel, and Rigoberta Menchú Tum.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

(4) 4-6 Holocaust Biographies series. Offering considerable information about the people they portray, these books strive for and attain a measure of objectivity, even though their subjects played vastly different roles in the Holocaust. The quality of the writing is uneven, ranging from fluent to choppy. The black-and-white photos are cited, but little textual material is. Each book contains a time line. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian