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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 1990
Gr 3-6 "Average" is the best way to describe these biographies. In eight short chapters, Fradin adequately covers the basics, with limited details and some oversimplification. The writing is occasionally awkward, and the use of colloquial expressions (e.g. "picked on" and "telling off") is jarring and out of place in historical biography. Original black-and-white drawings and historical reproductions illustrate the texts. Wayne's Women with a Cause (Garrard, 197...Log In or Sign Up to Read More