CLEOPATRA

Available this month is Cleopatra: Powerful Leader or Ruthless Pharaoh?--one of the six books in the Capstone Perspectives in History Series, which also includes stories about Andrew Jackson, Benedict Arnold, Christopher Columbus, John Brown, and Marie Antoinette. The books provide fascinating looks into the lives of famous people. Young readers are presented with both positive and negative aspects of the person's life, giving them an opportunity to form their own opinion about whether or not the person was good or bad.