| "LINCOLN: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY"
Author: Russell Freedman
Interest Level: Middle Grades (4-8)
ATOS Reading Level: 7.7
AR Points: 5.0
Publisher Recommended Age: 8-12
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Clarion
Book Type: Trade Paperback
Pages: 160
Book Description:
A description of the boyhood, marriage, and young professional life of Abraham Lincoln includes his presidential years and also reflects on the latest scholarly thoughts about our Civil War president. A Newbery Medal Book.
Book Reviews:
School Library Journal: "Well-organized and well-written, this is an outstanding example of what (juvenile) biography can be." Grades 5+.
Booklist: "A realistic, perceptive, and unromanticized photobiography of Lincoln, including a sampler of quotations from his writings and speeches."
Book Awards:
USA: Newbery 1988
USA: ALA (American Library Assn), Best Book for Young Adults
USA: ALA, Notable Book for Children
USA: Booklist, Editors' Choice
USA: Horn Book, Fanfare selection
USA: Publishers Weekly, Best Books of the Year
USA: School Library Journal, Best Books of the Year
About the Author:
Russell Freedman grew up in San Francisco and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. The author of over thirty-five nonfiction books on subjects ranging from animal behavior to social history, Mr. Freedman received the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award in 1992. Lincoln: A Photobiography was awarded the 1988 Newbery Medal and Eleanor Roosevelt was a Newbery Honor Book in 1994.
Mr. Freedman lives in New York City and travels extensively to gather material for his books. |
