Show, don’t tell - right? That’s the way a good story should be written. They will see how cruel the world could be back then without the sledgehammer approach. Give the story to little people straight. The feeling is “poor me” “I was a victim” and as an adult, I’m wondering how modern-day identity politics and feminism and all of our “stuff” influenced the writing of this story. While it’s fine to point out that she was a girl, Native American, living in a different era, etc - this book beats readers over the head with it in a way that is just so clumsy and disappointing. I was so looking forward to this but felt like some of the text was underpinned by a message that was too complex for my young kids and for me, it just took away from the story. At the back are an excellent timeline and photos. Each book tells the story of one of America’s icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction readers and that always includes the hero’s childhood influences. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great-the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. By the time the expedition arrived at the west coast, Sacagawea had proved that she truly was a trailblazer. As a translator, she helped the team communicate with members of the Shoshone tribe across the continent, carrying her child on her back the whole way. Sacagawea was the only girl, and the only Native American, to join Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery, which explored the United States from the Mississippi River all the way to the Pacific Ocean in the early 1800s. Handpicked by Amazon kids’ books editor, Seira Wilson, for Prime Book Box – a children’s subscription that inspires a love of reading.Sacagawea, the only Native American included in Lewis and Clark’s historic expedition, joins the inspiring list of heroes whose stories are told in this New York Times Bestselling biography series.

I am sacagawea by brad meltzer