Colin Powell by: Catherine Reef (nonfiction)

Catherine Reef writes an extensive biography of Colin Powell. She exhibits his accomplishments, ranging from him entering the military, to him moving his way up to become a lead figure in national security and military implementation. The pictures taken in this biography are photographs taken of Colin Powell during the specified times talked about the book. The detailed biography along with the vivid pictures does a wonderful job of capturing Colin Powell's life as an important military figure.

I would use this book as an introduction to a project. I think that reading biographies is an important thing that I never did when I was in elementary school. I would read part of this book and explain to the students that they were going to pick an individual to write a biography on. This would be a good project to assign because the students would have to use other biographies to learn and write about their specific person.