Enrique's Journey:
The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother
By Sonia Nazario
(Random House, 2006). 292 pp. $26.95.
Nazario tells the true story of Enrique, a teenager from Honduras, who leaves home to make the long trek to the United States to join his mother. This fills two important gaps in the immigration literature: using one boy's story to highlight the tens of thousands of children who come to el norte every year, and focusing on Central American rather than only Mexican migrants. Alternately harrowing and inspiring, much of this book could be excerpted for use in middle and high schools, and would complement nicely the new Rethinking Schools book, The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration, described elsewhere in this issue.

A People's History of Science: Minders, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks"
By Clifford D. Conner
(Nation Books, 2005). 554 pp. $17.95.
Howard Zinn calls this book, "a delightfully refreshing new look at the history of science." With chapters stretching from "Were Hunter-Gatherers Stupid?" to the up-to-date "The Scientific Industrial Complex," the book is a blending of science and world history. It will be of special interest to science teachers who hope to convince students that "science" and "people" deserve to be in the same sentence.

*Sundown Towns:
A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America
By James Loewen
(The New Press, 2005). 525 pp. $30.
In Sundown Towns, James Loewen (author of Lies My Teacher Told Me), deglorifies the North's role in segregation. Too often, traditional treatments of U.S. history regard the South as racist and hostile, but the North as a safe space for African Americans. Yet from 1890 into the 1970s, whites-only communities from California to Connecticut were known as "sundown towns," after the signs posted on city limits declaring the towns whites-only after dusk. In 1970, Illinois alone had 475 sundown towns. Loewen takes an in-depth look at segregation as a machine responsible for the denial of human rights. Loewen writes, "After all, after life itself, allowing someone to live in a place is perhaps the most basic human right of all."

Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice
By Eric Gutstein
(Routledge, 2006). 257 pp. $22.95.
Combining a deep understanding of critical teaching in the spirit of Paulo Freire with examples of teaching mathematics in inner-city middle schools in Chicago, Gutstein accomplishes something that most books published by academic presses fail to do. He blends theory and practice in a highly readable and useful volume. The book includes dozens of classroom lessons. This important contribution will teach and challenge mathematics teachers.

Speaking Out: Women, War, and the Global Economy
By Jan Haaken, et al.
(Ooligan Press, 2005). 98 pp. plus DVD. $19.95.
This creative and sophisticated package of lessons accompanies the DVD Diamonds, Guns, and Rice: Sierra Leone and the Women's Peace Movement. The curriculum takes a broad look at Sierra Leone in the context of colonialism, civil war, and globalization, and weaves together diverse lessons including personal narrative, story, and role play. For high school and college. [Ooligan Press, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751.]