(4) YA Lucent Library of Black History series. Many of the volumes in this series tracing African American history address slavery, from the Atlantic slave trade to the ongoing slavery reparation movement; Rosa Parks focuses on the civil rights movement and Religious discusses faith and the history of gospel music. The texts are dense but informative. Some black-and-white illustrations and photographs help break up the pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., ind. Review includes these Lucent Library of Black History titles: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Reparations for Slavery, The Civil War and Emancipation, The African American Religious Experience, The Atlantic Slave Trade, and Reconstruction.

Reviewer: Henrietta M. Smith

(4) YA American War Library series. Focusing in some depth on a particular aspect of the Civil War, each of these books is appropriate for supplemental research and classroom support, although readers with some prior knowledge of the war will be at an advantage. The texts, which contain some overlap from one book to another, are accessible and are accompanied by black-and-white photo reproductions, a number of which are used in more than one volume. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth