Jane Springer is the author of Genocide, part of the Groundwork Guides series for which she is also the series editor. She is a consultant in international development and has lived and worked in Mozambique and India. She is the author of Listen to Us: The World's Working Children and translator of the Portuguese-language books Nest Egg and Tales from the Amazon. Jane Springer lives in Toronto.

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• Commended, CCBC Our Choice (Starred Selection)
• Commended, Booklist Top 10 Youth Series - Nonfiction
• Commended, IRA Children's Book Award Notables
• Commended, NYPL Books for the Teenage List
• Commended, Maine State Library Cream of the Crop List
• Short-listed, Norma Fleck Non-fiction Award

...in a lucid, informal text, Springer ably documents particular crimes against humanity...A fine resource for Holocaust and genocide curriculums, and as a discussion starter for the topic of human rights.

Booklist

Each of the four well-written and engaging books in this valuable series provides a foundation for understanding an important subject relevant to current world stability and peace.

Library Media Connection

...engaging and thought-provoking...an excellent primer for anyone interested in international human rights and the fate of humankind itself.

Halifax Chronicle-Herald

The authors express strong viewpoints that are sure to jolt readers into ready agreement or opposition...These concise, straightforward titles are important additions to all collections.

School Library Journal

Though the topic is a dark one, Springer's passionate plea against the status quo lends her book an urgency and immediacy that pulls the reader equally through the dry legalism of United Nations statutes and the vivid horrors of genocides past and present...Highly Recommended.

CM Magazine

...the book gives an impassioned overview of a timely topic.

Horn Book

Readers will come away from the book wanting to do better, and be better, than the people who went before them who allowed such crimes to happen...

Globe and Mail

...concise and well-written...

Curriculum Connections (SLJ)