Her focus is on addressing some of the many lies and myths that have been accepted as truth at various times and places in human history. I recommend this as highly as I did NOT recommend the other American Revolution)!Īs with her other History Smasher titles, Messner presents middle grade readers with a solid introduction to disease and the wide variety of beliefs about their causes and treatments. So, please, librarians, put this book on display and encourage kids to check this one out! I suppose I'll have to read another of her more traditional history books in this series to see what I think. What shot it up to 4 stars was the information for youth on Covid-19, through the point that vaccines were introduced! That is incredibly fast production for a book, particularly one meant for kids! That part was excellent and valuable! She took on a number of myths about the Covid-19 vaccines and 'smashed' them.

There were a few other things where I could disagree but all of it would be trivial bits of information unfortunately for my prejudice, this book was pretty well written. It certainly is likely but that poor guy had a whole slew of things wrong. I can actually do that, a bit: she overstated the likelihood that King Tut died of Malaria. But I definitely started reading this book, biased against it! However, I simply had to admit that it was a pretty decent book! I have been interested in medical history since I was young and I was quite prepared to jump on this and scream how inaccurate it was. I read a prior book in this series and hated it but decided I should read another before condemning the whole series.

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