Time for Kids incorporates history that was taking place during Jesse Owens' life and how it effected him.
The chapters are short so they are manageable for a reluctant reader or a reader new to the biography genre. Lots of information and additional facts are packed into each page via fact boxes.
Warnings/points to discuss: racial tensions, World War II and Hitler, Jesse and his girlfriend (later wife) had their first daughter out of wedlock, Jesse smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and then eventually died from lung cancer.
Text features: table of contents, photographs, fact boxes, picture captions, bold/colored font, headings, time line
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