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The Watch That Ends the Night
Gr 7 Up—Returning to the free-verse narrative structure of New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery (Candlewick, 2007), Wolf gives another watershed historical event a fictional, strongly internalized, obsessively researched treatment...
Movies in American History
Gr 9 Up—Created for anthropology, sociology, and capital-"F" film students, this encyclopedia offers analyses of approximately 380 films and the people involved in them, plus about 70 essays on topics from "Animation" and "Feminist Film Criticism" to "Italian Neorealism" and "The Male Gaze...
WORLD AND ITS PEOPLES
Gr 6—8—The fifth and final set in this comprehensive survey covers 69 countries and 15 dependencies or culturally distinct entities...
![The Throne of Fire [Kane Chronicles]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/ArchiveImages/LegacyReviews/SLJ/978-1-42314-056-6.jpg)
In The Red Pyramid (rev...
Meet the Planets
Gr 2—4—Amusingly framed as a cheesy popularity contest, this parade of personified planets features illustrations in which rotund, recognizably marked caricatures of these heavenly bodies pose and mug, surrounded by an entourage of relevant though unidentified scientists, space probes, satellites both natural and artificial, books, constellations, and astronomical symbols...
Exploration Sky Watch
Gr 3—4—The texts in these quick once-overs are at times compressed to the point of incoherence...
Jupiter Saturn Uranus Venus
Gr 1—3—Aside from the use of boilerplate in both texts and illustrations, these titles offer a serviceable combination of colorful photos and art matched to a substantial but not overwhelming blend of general statements and specific facts...
Black Holes Constellations Eclipses NASA
Gr 2—3—These volumes offer short, simply phrased introductions to topics in astronomy enhanced by generous quantities of fairly high-quality space photography and art...
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