DONNELLY, Rebecca
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Genocide
Gr 7–10—The first book provides an overview of several well-known genocides, including the Holocaust and the more recent tragedies in Rwanda and Darfur...
Adventurers
Gr 4–7—Adventurers provides 6- to 8-page biographical sketches of 12 women who are "the stuff of legends...
Addie Slaughter
Gr 2—5—This slim, fictionalized biography tells the story of Addie Slaughter, daughter of Arizona lawman and rancher John Slaughter, who lived on the Southwestern frontier in the late 1800s...
Terrific Women Teachers
Gr 6—8—This collection of biographical sketches includes well-known educators like Annie Sullivan Macy, Maria Montessori, and Christa McAuliffe, as well as lesser-known but equally fascinating women like Indonesia's Raden Ayu Kartini and Afghanistan's Malalai Joya...
Black Power
Gr 9 Up—Aretha's history of the Black Power movement begins where many Civil Rights accounts leave off, with the formation of organizations that rejected nonviolence as too slow and ineffectual a means of achieving racial equality...
Mohandas Gandhi
Gr 8 Up—This is a fairly straightforward biography, focusing on Gandhi's political roles and belief in nonviolent resistance...
The Manhattan Project
Gr 9 Up—Sonneborn explains the different parts of the project and points out that it remains the model for large-scale cooperative public projects today...
The Treaty of Nanking The British Industrial Revolution
Gr 9 Up—Nanking is really about the Opium Wars begun by Britain in an effort to get China to open its trade to the West...
What Do You Believe?
Gr 4—7—The "new DK" style used here is still heavily illustrated, with many small bursts of text and great visual appeal, but with far less white space than the "Eyewitness" series, and it incorporates lots of silhouettes and speech bubbles...
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