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Gr 3-5 Although the series name suggests that the books cover a particular time period, only "Roosevelt" comes close to matching that description. The authors describe a significant event in United States history by using a famous American as a springboard. Each book opens with a brief biography. The rest of the text focuses on the event itself. The individual's life is woven into the history wherever appro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The goal of this series is to show how an individual changed life in the United States, but the brevity of biographical information and the lack of substantive information make these books inadequate. For example, in the volume on Pocahontas, informati...Log In or Sign Up to Read More