Middle School Non-Fiction
F/A Aveni,
Anthony. Buried Beneath Us: Discovering
the Ancient Cities of the Americas.
Roaring Brook Press, 2013.
90p. 978-1-59643-567-4. 18.99.
What makes a city? That is what author, Anthony Aveni,
attempts to explain in this middle school book. He discusses four different
ancient cities in the Americas with four different cultures that archeologists
and anthropologists have been studying for years. Discussion includes daily
life, religion, how the cities grew and then were eventually destroyed and what
we can learn from them. The topic is interesting, but the author often jumps
from city to city, making it hard for the reader to remember which city/culture
he is referring to. The answers to the questions he poses are not easily found
in the text. Better organization of the information would have made the book
more reader-friendly. Loren Spector, LAPL, Memorial Branch Library
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