Who is Amelia Earhart?

Title: Who Was Amelia Earhart?                                                        

Author: Kate Boehm Jerome

Illustrator: Nancy Harrison and David Cain

Genre: Biography

Subgenre: juvenile literature

Theme: Biography

Primary Characters: Amelia Earhart

Secondary Characters:

Awards: None

Date of Publication: 2002

Publishing Company: Grosset and Dunlap

Summary of the book: This is a great book about Amelia Earhart’s life; it contains important information and facts about Amelia Earhart from childhood and up. It tells about how Amelia became a woman pilot. This book gives a lot of historical information. There were also numerous sketches and maps which would keep a youngster engaged throughout the book.

How can the book be used with students in the classroom: I would use this book in my classroom to have the children read the book as a class and talk about how to write a biography.