SERIES MADE SIMPLE

Agatha Christie: Traveler, Archaeologist, and Author

by Kristin Thiel
9781502627551. ea vol: 128p. (Fearless Female Soldiers, Explorers, and Aviators). bibliog. further reading. photos. websites. Cavendish Square. Aug. 2017. lib. ed. $45.64.
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Gr 9 Up—Long opening chapters provide comprehensive introductions, laying out important facts and sounding themes that will develop later in each text. Narratives are suited to stronger readers, including some challenging vocabulary (typically defined in the glossary) and lengthy digressions setting historical context. Bessie Coleman's childhood, for example, is examined in light of racial segregation and discrimination in the U.S. South, Mary Edwards Walker's alongside the religious ferment of the Second Great Awakening. Sidebar texts break up longer accounts somewhat and provide supplemental information. Photographs are plentiful and sometimes striking, such as one of a young Agatha Christie with her mother in the 1890s.
VERDICT Well-researched and clearly written historical biographies, recommended for libraries serving high schoolers.
Reviewed by Staff , Nov 01, 2017

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