Bertha Takes a Drive: How the Benz Automobile Changed the World
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P Close : Frank Lloyd Wright, a Twentieth-century Life
Gr 7 Up?Adkins captures Wright's strong personality, fierce character, and emotional ups and downs in this lively biography. Following his subject's childhood and career, he focuses on the events in Wright's life that may have accounted for his egotism and instability. Life events aside, Adkins does address his architectural legacies. Unfortunately, the small black-and-white pictures […]
What If You Met a Knight
School Library Journal Review: Gr 4-8?Adkins debunks the romantic ideas about knights and chooses to show the ??real deal,?? instead. He starts with Arthur and the Round Table, explaining how troubadours and storytellers spread pretty tales that had little basis in reality. He explains the feudal system and describes the life of Sir Guy of […]