Jayne Pettit

Maya Angelou (Journey of the Heart) can be used as an independent or group read for fourth and fifth graders. The story has some intense subjects, but is told in a way that is not graphic. The biography is grade level reading and has many details to engage the reader. This book could be used to learn about text features as it has an index, table of contents, bibliography, timeline and footnotes. It is an engaging story through defeat of oppression and abandonment, but also contains those key text features for a non-fiction book. This book could also be used in a unit about civil right and be a book to look at the past of many civil rights leaders. Maya Angelou had to overcome much to get where she did and it would be interesting for the students to see how civil rights leader's past were the same and different and this book could be used to show that development.… (més)

​The book is about a lot of stories during the Holocaust. What do you know, the first story is about Anne Frank and her family. Everyone should know the story about Anne Frank but if you didn't know, Anne Frank was Jewish and the Nazis were killing the Jews in Germany. Sadly, the Nazis find all of them and take Anne and her family to the camps where they kill all the Jews. It was weird though because the people that took the Franks to hide, the Nazis didn't take them.

​The book wasn't the best since it was non fiction but it was decent. The book had way too much detail to it and every chapter was 1 story. It should have been like a couple stories every chapter. But the book was good because of some information I learned about the Holocaust. I would recommend this book to anyone, well because there's nothing graphic about it.… (més)