(4) YA Remembering the Holocaust series. This updated series provides report writers with a decent overview of the Holocaust, including events surrounding Hilter's rise to power, major figures, atrocities, and resistance efforts. Each edition includes helpful maps and one or two poorly reproduced black-and-white archival photos in an uninspired design. The volumes will be useful for report writing but should be supported with more in-depth books. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Remembering the Holocaust titles: Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Warsaw, Lodz, Vilna, Anti-Semitism and the "Final Solution", Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka, Schindler, Wallenberg, Miep Gies, and Wiesel, Wiesenthal, Klarsfeld.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(3) 4-6 Sterling Biographies series. Rich with facts, these biographies go beyond basic information and personal mythologies to reveal the lasting achievements and human foibles of six incredible women. Each thoughtfully designed volume draws readers in, vividly bringing to life the various places and times, from Joan of Arc's fifteenth-century France to Amelia Earhart's twentieth-century America, through informational sidebars, photographs, and document reproductions. Timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Sterling Biographies titles: Helen Keller, Cleopatra, Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, and Joan of Arc.

Reviewer: Chelsey Philpot

(4) 4-6 Sterling Biographies series. Quick-paced chapters and well-chosen images of photos, paintings, documents, etc. (e.g., Edison's talking-doll prototype) make for engaging, if mostly laudatory, biographies. Sidebars flesh out historical contexts, science facts, and important contemporaries and predecessors. Larger-than-life Houdini will probably have the most appeal. Einstein is the least accessible due to its complex physics content. Across the volumes, quotes aren't cited. Timeline. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Sterling Biographies titles: Alexander Graham Bell, The Wright Brothers, Benjamin Franklin, Harry Houdini, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein.

Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger

(3) 4-6 Innovators series. In clear, readable prose, the books in this series center their surveys on seven or eight pioneers in their fields, including Tycho Brahe (observational astronomy), William Herschel (deep space), James Marsh (toxicology), and Alec Jeffreys (DNA fingerprints). Varied black-and-white illustrations, photos, and other marginalia extend the text. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these titles: Astronomy and Forensics.]

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(3) YA Holocaust Remembered series. These books begin with general information about the economic and social origins of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism in Europe, followed by a more detailed look at specific topics, including resistance movements and the creation of the state of Israel. The books will be useful for report writing but should be supported with more in-depth books. Chronologies, black-and-white photographs, and maps are included. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth