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Hitler's Final Solution
An excellent addition to collections serving upper middle and high school students.
Hard as Nails in Myths and Legends
These books are unlikely to hold readers' attention and they will be of little value to middle school libraries.
Learning About South America
Solid choices for elementary collections.
This boilerplate series provides basic information about the continent it covers in serviceable but generic prose. Choppy presentation of facts about wildly different parts of North America mar this installment. Brief chapters provide information on countries and cities, climate, landforms, natural resources, people, cultures, and economics. Colorful stock photos, maps, and sidebars appear throughout. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.
Brazil
The premise of examining how developing nations and their cities manage rapid growth in the global era is a good one, but out-of-date content and difficult vocabulary will limit the audience.
For a series on the "fastest-developing" countries, these attractive volumes for report writers are already somewhat dated (not much is mentioned past 2013). Each book includes sections devoted to history, culture, political change, and economic development, as well as several double-page spotlights on major cities (Jakarta, Beijing, and Mumbai, respectively). Bright color photographs are plentiful and varied. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Emerging Nations titles: Indonesia, China, and India.
The 9/11 Terror Attacks
Libraries that need material about these topics should consider more recent treatments for reports and readers.
This competent series examines major events in world history with a focus on context and aftermath. Bodden deftly zooms in and out on the relevant historical and cultural details surrounding each event, creating a clear and extremely accessible account of complex topics. Well-chosen photographs, sidebars, and pull quotes complement the even-handed prose. Glossy, attractive page design adds further appeal. Bib., ind. Review covers these Odysseys in History titles: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Holocaust, and The 9/11 Terror Attacks.
Behind the Lines
These selections introduce so many topics, people, battles, and events that students are as likely to become confused as informed, and they don't improve on the many extant titles available about World War II.
This series provides middle schoolers with a general overview of WWII, discussing conflicts between Allied and Axis forces in both the western and eastern theaters; Home and Life focus on hardships civilians from both sides faced. Numerous photographs, sidebars, and blocks of text on every spread add up to a lot of information but a cluttered format. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these World War II: The Full Story titles: Behind the Lines, Causes and Outbreaks, Home Fronts, Life in the War, North African and Europe, and War in the Pacific.
Africa
Good supplemental purchases for libraries that need interesting choices to encourage nonfiction reading required to satisfy the learning standards.
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