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Biography Today, Annual Cumulation 2000
Laurie Lanzen Harris · 2000
71/100
👍 Worth It
By the ninth volume the Biography Today format is well-refined — the ERIC indexing, cumulative general index back to 1992, and 443-page scope make this the most substantive of the three cumulation volumes in this batch. Profiles are brief by design and the 2000 figures are now historical, but for school libraries building reference collections the series pedigree and educator vetting make it a reliable choice. Same strengths and limitations as the other volumes, just slightly more of both.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance67
craft70
originality58
accuracy80
hype85
age-fit82
human-eye64
Penny’s verdict71
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