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In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers
ALAN Review, Summer 2007 by Goodson, F Todd
In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers by Deborah Reber Simon Pulse, 2007, 411 pp., $12.99 Non-fiction/Careers ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-2578-3
In Their Shoes offers middle school and high school girls an opportunity to explore an astonishingly wide variety of career paths. With entries for such diverse career paths as accountants, animators, and yoga instructors, each entry provides a detailed personal portrait of one individual working in that career. Typical entries include not only the nuts and bolts issues of qualifications, salary, dress code, and stress levels for the career, but readers are also offered a look behind the curtain at the individuals' typical day, journal entries, and so on.
While the collection includes entries on a few individuals with some name recognition (e.g., Senator Barbara Boxer), all of the entries detail the lives of individuals to serve as positive role models.
In Their Shoes will be an important addition to school and public libraries. Just as importantly, teachers and guidance counselors will find the book a valuable resource for units of study regarding career and life choices.
F. Todd Goodson
Manhattan, KS
Copyright Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English Summer 2007
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