Saundra Mitchell

Jun 15, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Doris Kearns Goodwin |Ruby Shamir |Saundra Mitchell |Sarah- SoonLing Blackburn

by Doris Kearns Goodwin ; adapted by Ruby Shamir ; illustrated by Amy June Bates ‧A solid exploration of the path from childhood to presidency. A young readers’ version of Goodwin’s Leadership (2018), adapted by Shamir, that also incorporates material from no fewer than six of Goodwin’s previous works. This volume looks at the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson and tries to explain how they grew up to become president.

Jan 9, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Claire Sarnowski |Saundra Mitchell |Abby Wambach

Sarnowski, a Catholic girl who’s cued white, met octogenarian Alter Weiner when, at age 9, she attended his presentation in Portland, Oregon, about his experiences during the Holocaust and its aftermath. Polish Jewish immigrant Weiner spent years as a teen in Nazi slave labor camps, enduring starvation and nearly being worked to death. After the war, he learned that more than 100 members of his family had been murdered in the concentration camps.