Nick Magazine

Nick Magazine, May 2008.


Nick magazine is a side kick for Nickelodeon. Whether you watch this station or not all readers will enjoy what this magazine offers. Written to intrigue the most reluctant readers you can find a wide variety of articles, a celebrity page, and lots of fun quick reads. For your comic book lovers, readers can enjoy multiple comic stripes that will have you laughing out loud. While you are reading though, don’t forget to look for Zelda Van Gutters, Nick mag’s great reporting dog. That’s not all, readers can also enjoy there website at Nickmag.com that offers much more including games. This addition will be a thrilling read for many young adults.

Sports Illustrated Kids

Sports Illustrated: Kids is the perfect magazine for our children who are sport nuts. This magazine offers the same content as Sports Illustrated, but it is geared to what our children want to know. The articles are shorter in length that will help maintain a child’s interest in the story. Throughout the magazine readers can find many well taken photos that will grab at it readers. Also, included on several pages is their website, http://www.sikids.com/, which offers students more information on the topic, numerous photos, and sport tips. For those children who love free stuff the magazine offers several tear out posters and a variety of sports cards. This magazine is well put together and great addition to magazine racks everywhere.

Sigmund Freud by Kathleen Krull

Krull, Kathleen. Sigmund Freud. New York: Penguin Group, 2006.

Illustrated by Boris Kulikov

Kathleen Krull will take readers into the life of Sigmund Freud from his childhood through what he accomplished in the world of science. Krull discusses with readers how he invented psychoanalysis and his steps to getting to that point. However, she doesn’t hold back on her facts. Readers will also be informed of his study of cocaine, problems with women, and even discuss his final disease. Krull will capture her audience with her writing as she describes the life of a man that truly made a impact on our world of science today. To add a small touch to this book, Kulikov does a fabulous job with a few of his drawings that portray Freud. This book is a great addition to any library’s biography section.

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow. New York: Scholastic, 2005.

Could you imagine being a teenager during Hitler’s term in office? Did you know that German teenagers where required to become a part of Hitler Youth by the year 1939? Using a wide range of resources like diaries and letters, Bartoletti will share stories of teenagers who were a part of Hitler’s Youth and what their life was like through the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. From experiences like wrecking Jewish homes to Herbert Norkus being killed on a public street, readers will be amazed with the lives these children lived. The black and white historical pictures provided will also help readers visualize what life was like during Hitler’s reign. This book is a great addition to classrooms all over who are studying the Holocaust, and will help students understand what it was like for children their own age.