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Gr 5 Up—A highly attractive design featuring crisp photos, colored text boxes and sidebars, and clearly labeled chapters and subsections sets this series apart...
Strong options for introducing the concept of primary source analysis.
Clear double-page spreads feature a variety of visual elements
including charts, graphs, and maps; reproduced photographs and
documents; and sidebars with critical-thinking questions. The
series purports to promote the importance of primary source
material, though the direct quotes in red font are injected rather
unnaturally into the narratives. Still, these are adequate starting
points for American history research. Bib., glos., ind. Review
covers these Fact Finders: Primary Source History titles: A
Primary Source History of U.S. Independence and A Primary
Source History of Slavery in the United States.
Gr 5–8—These "Choose Your Own Adventure"—style books invite readers to assume roles as architects and builders of sites that set historical records in their magnitude...