As a nonfiction children's author, Milton Meltzer single-mindedly focuses upon the explication of lives devoted to the continuing struggle for human rights and social reform, effectively portraying the plights of downtrodden people oppressed by the...

Much of the subject matter in Milton Meltzer's nearly one hundred titles--poverty, religion, crime, peace, discrimination, slavery--concerns injustices especially common to America. "As a nonfiction children's author, Milton Meltzer single-mindedly...