Enslow Publishers.Enslow Publishers PO Box 398, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 www.enslow.com Three excellent biographies are highly recommended picks for pre-teens and early teens in grades 4-8, offering lasting value through feature of famous personalities in formats suitable for reports. Adding to the new series 'Holocaust Heroes and Nazi Criminals' is Spring Hermann's Anne Frank  Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (listen : Hope In The Shadows Of The Holocaust (0766025314, $23.95): 160 pages of biographical material explores both Frank's life and the events which shaped her life, told through excerpts from her diary and writings both before and after her seclusion seclusion Forensic psychiatry A strategy for managing disturbed and violent Pts in psychiatric units, which consists of supervised confinement of a Pt to a room–ie, involuntary isolation, to protect others from harm . The social and political analysis of the times is especially revealing. Anne Schraff's Rosa Parks Noun 1. Rosa Parks - United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913) Parks : Tired Of Giving In a falling inwards; a collapse. See also: Giving (0766024636, $23.95) tells of a rural Alabama black woman whose soft- spoken defiance on a city bus sparked the beginnings of real civil rights activism. While most accounts highlight the bus incident, it was only part of Parks' life and achievements: the rest is to be found here. Carin T. Ford's Roberto Clemente: Baseball Legend (0766024-857) joins others in the 'Latino Biography Library' to cover the achievements of a player 'born to play baseball'. His Puerto Rican Puer·to Ri·co Abbr. PR or P.R. A self-governing island commonwealth of the United States in the Caribbean Sea east of Hispaniola. roots and rise to fame make for revealing reading for young sports enthusiasts. |
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