Reviews for Ronde and Tiki Barber: Football Stars

The average rating for Ronde and Tiki Barber: Football Stars based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-25 00:00:00 Marc Perez Tejero This is a non-fiction common core resource. This book talks about the challenges and triumphs of these great football players. This is a great book for students to understand the challenges of becoming a star in the NFL. They were both good students and didn't pin all of their adult hopes on becoming successful football players. It also describes the challenges of making it in the NFL even after being drafted by a team. It also has a few sections that compare and contrast their lives as twins. This would contribute to "Read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social,studies, science, and technical texts". Students could compare and contrast the Barber brothers to themselves or to other football players.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-03-07 00:00:00 Joann Stangeland (Claudia) A commendably multi-dimensional portrait of Rosa Parks, from childhood annecdotes and character portrait, through many years of dedicated, difficult, and not always appreciated activism on behalf of the civil rights movement, on into her later years, when she continued to witness for civil rights while supporting herself at low-wage work. The format of bold type questions, followed by a page or so of large-size text, presents the information in manageable-size pieces within a coherent larger structure. Historical information is presented straightforwardly but not simplistically, as are Parks' complex feelings of hope and bitterness, compassion and anger. Dynamic black and white drawings and occasional photographs add to the telling. Gr. 4-7. (Booklist) Favorable: "… accessible text and design …" "Plenty of questions … and clear, detailed answers …"