(2) YA In the early 1930s, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker hooked up for a two-year crime spree, cutting a wide swath through the Midwest as they eluded authorities. This well-researched biography does an admirable job of distinguishing the facts from the mythology, as well as reconstructing the timeline of the pair's criminal activities while vividly rendering the political, social, and cultural milieu of a bygone era. Timeline. Bib, ind.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2019

(3) 4-6 Exploring America's Regions series. This pleasantly written and up-to-date series of guidebooks provides brief overviews of each titular U.S. region, followed by concise chapters on history, landmarks, wildlife, industry, and people and culture (including Native peoples). Features throughout the texts offer further resources, critical thinking questions, and engagement with primary source quotes. Photos and maps enhance the information. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Exploring America's Regions titles: Exploring New England, Exploring the Mid-Atlantic, Exploring the Midwest, Exploring the Southwest, Exploring the South, and Exploring the West.

Reviewer: Kristy Pasquariello

(3) 4-6 Fact Finders: Exploring History Through Food series. This straightforward series describes the challenges of finding and cooking food in the past. Eight recipes--of varying degrees of difficulty--for typical Civil War and frontier foods (e.g., hardtack in Civil War, rice pudding in Pioneer Farm) are presented. Also included are kitchen-safety and cooking-equipment tips, a metric conversion chart, food and archival photographs, a map, and illustrations. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Fact Finders: Exploring History Through Food titles: Civil War Cooking and Pioneer Farm Cooking.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) 4-6 Cause-and-Effect Disasters series. Five disastrous events in American history are explored from a cause-and-effect perspective. Each volume includes four succinct chapters, first establishing setting before relating the major events and their aftermath/results (e.g., the Chicago Fire and 1888 Blizzard precipitated future building codes and public warning systems). Numerous photographs/illustrations, diagrams, sidebars, and a clear appended flow chart round out the presentations. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers the following Cause-and-Effect Disasters titles: The Jamestown Colony Disaster, Death in the Donner Party, Hurricane Katrina and the Flooding of New Orleans, The Great Chicago Fire, and The Children's Blizzard of 1888.

Reviewer: Rita Soltan