PRINCE, Jennifer S.

This series provides upper-elementary students with in-depth coverage of phases and events of the U.S. civil rights movement. The narratives are supplemented effectively with archival photographs and primary source quotes. With overt Common Core–related intention, readers are challenged with overabundant sidebars and inserts containing critical-thinking questions, writing prompts, and suggested research topics and readings. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Stories of the Civil Rights Movement titles: James Meredith and the University of Mississippi, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Summer, 1964, The Little Rock Nine, Nonviolent Resistance in the Civil Rights Movement, The Passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Each book provides historical context, stories of actual events, and background on the spies themselves. The texts and layout are clear, aided by the generous use of prints, photographs, and maps. The narratives are evenhanded and often provide some underlying reasons why the men and women became spies. Timeline, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Wartime Spies titles: Cold War Spies, Modern Spies, World War I Spies, and World War II Spies.