Overview

"""Great Expeditions"" is an exciting new series that explores history without the confines of time or distance. Dr. Isabel Soto is an archaeologist and world explorer with the skills to go wherever and whenever she needs to research history, solve a mystery, or rescue a colleague in trouble. This book helps readers join Izzy on her journeys and gain knowledge about historical places, eras and cultures in the way. It features: full colour high-impact illustrations, table of contents, glossary, bibliography, index, additional information section and more."

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"Although written and illustrated by different people, each of these graphic novels has a similar look and storyline. Each adventure features Isabel who, with the help of a time travel portal, investigates, explores, and often rescues others. The adventure part of the story happens in current time. Factual information is dispensed by being embedded in speech bubbles making the dialogue choppy and forced, or as narrative throughout the pages. There are also fact boxes which provide related information. In many cases, Isabel travels back to research a historical event as it happened. ""More About..."" gives additional information about each book's subject, and the same ""biography"" of Isabel, who is a great role model for young girls. Young readers will enjoy these graphic novels for the adventures, while teachers can use them as introduction to various units. Bibliography. Glossary. Websites. Table of Contents. Index. Recommended.-- ""Library Media Connection"" Books written in graphic format are favorites of mine! They are perfect for reluctant readers and students who never seem to finish a book on their own. They are also a wonderful way to introduce nonfiction books to young people. Young adults who want to read anything they can get their hands on will enjoy the graphics, exhilarating stories, and fast paced text. The full-color graphics support and expand the story extremely well. On many pages, the author includes a box that gives extra information to help with comprehension. Vocabulary has been well selected and this book is an excellent resource that could be used for writing a summary, a book report, or a source for research. This book is part of the ""Great Expeditions"" series and explores history in a very reader-friendly manner. Dr. Isabel Soto has the ability to travel through time using a device called the W.I.S.P. In this story, her friend Dr. Baker is preparing an exhibit of the Titanic and needs to know why the accident was so deadly. In order to get this information, Dr. Soto travels back to the time of the Titanic's sinking. During her search for the answer, she talks to many experts who traveled the seas, whose stories provide the reader with several different explanations of why the Titanic could not be saved. This is an exciting story filled with a great deal of interesting information. At the end of the book the author includes two pages of additional information. In addition, there is a ""Glossary, Read More Section, Internet Sites, Index,"" and a mini biography. I highly recommend this book for children who want to start their own personal libraries, for classroom, school, and public libraries, as well as for enticing the reluctant reader. 2010-- ""Children's Literature Comprehensive Database"" Vocabulary has been well selected and this book is an excellent resource that could be used for writing a summary, a book report, or a source for research.-- ""Children's Literature Comprehensive Database"""

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Agnieszka Biskup is a writer and editor based in Chicago. She is a former science editor at the Boston Globe as well as a Knight Fellow at MIT, where she studied science journalism. She served as managing editor of the children's magazine Muse and has written numerous children's books in addition to many articles for newspapers, magazines, and websites. Her books have received awards from Learning magazine, the Association of Educational Publishers, the Society of School Librarians International, and have been chosen as Junior Library Guild selections. She is also a winner of the 2015 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award in the Writing for Children category.

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