(3) YA This novel centers on the friendship between Alexander Hamilton and Peggy Schuyler, whom Alexander recruits to help him win her sister Eliza's affections, even while the tension and danger of war are foremost in everyone's lives. Entertaining and interesting, the story is steeped in Revolutionary War history and enriched with excerpted letters from the time. A lengthy afterword is appended. Bib.

Reviewer: Kristy Pasquariello

(3) K-3 Step into Reading series. Illustrated by Valerio Fabbretti. This easy-reader biography covers Eliza's wealthy childhood and upbringing; her marriage to Alexander Hamilton and their lives during the American Revolution; the tragic deaths by duel of her son and husband; and her later life devoted to charity and education. Solid, succinct explanations and cartoonlike illustrations provide a basic understanding of the woman's standing in American history.

Reviewer: Rita Soltan

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Esmé Shapiro. In an imagined letter to her unborn great-granddaughter, Eliza recounts her life in parallel to her husband's role in the development of the U.S., while highlighting her own accomplishments as one of America's first female activists and philanthropists. Folk art–style mixed-media paintings capture the eighteenth-century era. Extensive endnotes fill in historical details and biographical facts excluded from the first-person, epistolary narrative. Timeline, websites. Bib.

Reviewer: Rita Soltan