American Heroes of Exploration and Flight (Collective Biographies)

Gr 6-9--Each of these volumes profiles 10 memorable leaders. Astronomers features five men and five women, including Maria Mitchell and Carl Sagan. Women in America's Wars starts with Mary Hays (better remembered as Molly Pitcher) and ends with Pamela Davis Dorman, the first female U.S. Navy Chaplain to serve with the Marines. In American Heroes, Matthew Henson and Robert Peary are given equal credit for discovering the North Pole. Amelia Earhart, Jacqueline Cochran, Sally Ride, and Christa McAuliffe are the women covered. Each bio is 8-10 pages long and provides the most engaging highlights of the person's life, beginning with an exciting event to capture readers' interest. Enough background history is included to make the subjects' accomplishments significant to modern readers. Black-and-white photographs enhance the clearly written texts, and chapter notes and indexes will help report writers. Solid additions.

Sandra L. Doggett, Urbana High School, Walkersville, MD

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