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Eyewitness Books are reliably great, but this one is my particular favorite. There is an illustration of an Aztec human sacrifice that I saw for the first time when I was in 5th grade and it struck me with that gruesome fascination that middle-grade kids love so much. In the updates made to the book in the last 25 years, that same illustration is still there! This book was a hit with my class this past year. ( )

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I really enjoyed the book Aztec, Inca, and Maya, especially because it was part of one of my favorite book series’, Eyewitness books. As a child, we always used to watch the eyewitness videos in school, and reading the books was fun as well. My favorite part of the Eyewitness series is how interactive the books are. When looking at a page, there often isn’t any “main block” of text. Instead, the book is made up of interesting diagrams, charts, and infographics relating to the topic. For example, this particular book contained a giant picture of a Mayan, and labeled the parts of the body and clothing that were specific to the Mayans. Another thing I like about this book is how big it is. Because of this, the text is larger and the pictures are as well. The only real negative thing about this book is that because there isn’t any main block of text, it can often be cluttered and confusing. The main idea of this book is to inform the reader about the Aztec, Incan, and Mayan Empires. ( )