Who Was Sacagawea?

by Dennis Brindell Fradin

Overview

Sacagawea was only sixteen when she made one of the most remarkable journeys in American history, traveling 4500 miles by foot, canoe, and horse-all while carrying a baby on her back! Without her, the Lewis and Clark expedition might have failed. Through this engaging book, kids will understand the reasons that today, 200 years later, she is still remembered and immortalized on a new golden dollar coin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101640098
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	02/18/2002
Series:	Penguin Who Was...Series
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
Lexile:	650L (what's this?)
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

Table of Contents

	Who Was Sacagawea?	1
	A Shoshone Girl	5
	Visitors	19
	Bird Woman's River	31
	Coming Home	53
	To the Pacific	64
	Winter 1805-06	79
	The Return Trip	87
	What Became of Bird Woman?	98
	Honoring Sacagawea	102

Editorial Reviews

Gr 3-5-This accessible, accurate biography provides brief contextual information about the tribes in which Sacagawea lived, from her own people, the Shoshone, to her captors, the Minnetaree and Mandan. Since almost all that is known about her is from the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition, this work necessarily focuses on that event and her part in it. Unfortunately, the black-and-white illustrations are dreadful. The cover borders on caricature and does nothing to invite interest or non-prejudicial awareness. The sketches of Lewis and Clark within the text are equally bad. Only those that detail specific material, such as a Shoshone tipi, Mandan lodge, or travois pass muster as good, informative, and text-enhancing. Another problem with the book is the lack of source information. David A. Adler's A Picture Book of Sacagawea (Holiday, 2000) is for younger students and Judith St. George's Sacagawea (Putnam, 1997), for older readers. Wait for a better choice to fill the gap.-Nancy Collins-Warner, Neill Public Library, Pullman, WA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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