Immerse In Thrilling Thieves: Liars, Cheats, And Double-Crossers Who Changed History (Changed History, #3) Sketched By Brianna DuMont Delivered In Digital Edition

DuMont makes learning fun, This book is perfect for kids, and for any history buff who loves new ways to learn old facts, The narration is crisp and funny and makes it impossible to put down,
A funny take on history that is easy to understand and doesnt read like a textbook, E WOW! Great showcase of pirates, thieves, politicians, monarchs and spies, . .

Did you know about Vincenzo Perugia the thief who stole the Mona Lisa
Klaus Fuchs aka The ABomb Spy
Robert Smalls a former slave
Robert Fortune who stole tea from the Chinese for Europe
or the corruption of Queen Elizabeth the First
or the biggest surprise for me was the film pirater, Thomas Edison YES THAT Thomas Edison!

Find about all of these people and more and how through lies, thievery, corruption, money, power, and crime, they controlled and shifted history!

Good read for history projects as the author has tried to share multiple points of view of the individual to show all sides of theindividuals featured.
It is really good for students because the author deliberately includes notes and citations of all of the reference resources she uses, This could be a onestop book for some, Very cool! You can tell the author did their research and I especially love the layout and color coding, My problems are twofold. The author tried to add humor, but it fell mostly flat, I think this is because of my other problem, the author added way too much vocab and useless information usually in an effort to be funny, but it just overwhelmed the story instead of adding to it.


Example: "He knew better than to go into unexplored lands harquebuses blazingHarquebuses: Invented in the fifteenth century, a harquebus was the really slow father of the rifle.
It was super dangerous to the user and sort of dangerous to the target with its long loading times, tripods, and tendency to explode, ”

The information by itself is kind of cool, but it was unnecessary to bring it up at all as the story didn't revolve around a harquebus in any way.
This seemed to happen about every other paragraph, Fun book. Written for the YA audience middle school and up yet enjoyable for adults, I wonder

if the kids would understand many of her tongueincheek comments, or paragraph titles, No matter. There's lots of information that most adults don't know either, I read a lot of nonfiction history yet had never heard of the Chinese Pirate, Mrs Cheng, or known how much Catherine the Great changed the lives of Russian peasants and all Russian women.
Still, both were def not nice people, It was really interesting and I liked it alot, This was a a fun book into the lives of well known people who, were, well, liars, cons and thieves!

This was written in a really fun way that gets the historical information across but doesn't bore readers.
It was written for middle grade readers but as an adult I enjoyed it! Read aloud to the kids for school, We enjoyed this as a read aloud, The book is written in a slapstick style that I didn't love, and led to read aloud editing to make it audience appropriate, It was also hard not to compare this book to the Epic Fails series, I really loved each of those books, found them much more academic and less silly, and with more legitimate information, This book had the potential to be great, especially with color photos and graphics, but many of the pictures were over the top silly and didn't add anything.
We probably won't pick up the other books in this series, but will look into some of the people we read about in this book to learn more about their lives.
Wow the thieves in this book will surprise you, I love how it is written dripping with sarcasm,/Its not common to think of famous people from history as thieves, And yet, in many cases they stole to cement their power, which is why their names are known to us today, Take Elizabeth I of England, She stole gold, silver, and ships from Spain, which had stolen much of its riches from natives in the new world, Or Napoleon Bonaparte, who stole some of the most revered pieces of art as he rampaged across Europe, bringing them back to install in the Louvre museum.


These personalities and others are profiled in Thrilling Thieves: Liars, Cheats, and Cons Who Changed History by Brianna DuMont, Part of The Changed History Series, Thrilling Thieves also focuses on people who are also considered heroes, like Robert Smalls, Smalls was a slave in South Carolina who led his family and others to freedom during the Civil War by stealing a warship,

Thomas Edison also makes the list, as he stole quite a few ideas for inventions and patented them in his name, Theprofiles of people both famous and little known helps history come alive in a way that will encourage young readers to view history from a different perspective.
I recommend Thrilling Thieves for agesto,

The publisher provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review, Humor is the perfect addition to this serious history, meh. I don't even know what to really say about this, It's meant to be an educational / historic book of sorts, but it's severely lacking in areas,

Some of the information given doesn't seem to piece together at times, . Some of the photos seem to be a little off too,

There aretotal profiles of people, some more "famous" than others, Some of the profiles are better than others, Thomas Edison's profile for example was a lot more interesting than I thought,

It was a quick read, but just okay, How do I loathe thee, . . let me count the ways,
I wanted to LOVE this book when Junior Library Guild sent it to my library, Then I read itand wanted to hurl it across the room and we librarians don't like to damage books!,
First, the author wants to make it sound friendly amp approachable to kids target audience for this seems to be middle schoolersI am at a middle school.
Instead, it's like "history lite, " I found the writing annoying,
The selected photographs and images, which are supposed to help explain the information, sometimes don't work well at all: maps that are so small you can't really see the information, captions that are silly like the writing Elizabeth knighting Drakebut will middle schoolers understand that's what's happening when the caption is "not bad for a poor boy turned thief"
The illustrations drawn specifically for the book also don't enhance, and tend to have their own silly captions with no context for kids about the "damsel in distress" types of old movies, the picture of a strongman tied up on a train track amp the caption "Edison's damsel is distressed" make the image just stupid instead of humorous as was intended.

There's a lot of information amp DuMont tries to connect it all, but leaves a lot of gaps Fuchs was not the only spy at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project and even poor information saying the man who stole the Mona Lisa was crazy due to lead poisoning because one of his jobs was as a painteramp she says that paint contained lead before.
While lead paint was allowed in the US until, it was unlawful back into thes in Europe, It also doesn't make a person crazy, It can lead to brain damage, and even depression or anxiety, but not craziness, My daughter was lead poisoned due to old paint in our very old houseI learned the info the hard way on that one,

instead ofsimply because, underneath the garbage, there is some good, entertaining information, Still, there's SOOOO much better out there, Skip this one. In fact, skip the series of books, I'm sure they're all like this, but I won't bother reading any of the others,

Disappointed. Theyearold and I only read the chapter about Catherine the Great to complement our history lesson about early modern Russia and Prussia, We really enjoyed it and would like to take time to read the other chapters at a future date, In this followup to her Famous Phonies book, DuMont takes the reader briefly through the lives of some famous individuals who changed the world, but did it through thievery of various types.
Whether you are reading about Catherine the Great who stole a kingdom from her husband the Tsar of Russia or Napoleon who stole numerous pieces of art from each of the lands he conquered or Robert Smalls, a slave, who stole a boat to make his way to freedom, each of the people in this book were real and left their mark on the world they lived in.
For some, there remains in the modern world evidence of their work, such as the Louvre where some of the artwork Napoleon stole still resides or movies that Thomas Edison helped create through his thieving and bullying ways.
Once again, DuMont has created a fun book full of interesting information about people who changed history but not always using the best methods, It raises the question, do the ends justify the means

Did not enjoy this book but I had to read it for class so that had an effect.
Both hilarious and accurate accounts oflesserknown thieves throughout history, I liked the sidebars and call outs throughout that help set the scene with terminology and information that may not have been previously known,.

This book had kind of a weird, sarcasticesque tone, It felt dumbeddown in parts, I personally got the impression that it was an adult writer trying to write to kids but who doesn't totally understand them, Younger readers may like it, however, There is certainly interesting information, I especially appreciated the author's notes on sources and that her website provides further, readily available facts and sources for further research, It was less thieves and more boring history, The text didnt really flow, I saw this book and initially thought "Oh, this looks interesting!" And it was, I guess, I just didn't really love the breathless, kind of slangy prose the author used, as if kids couldn't possibly be interested in, you know, wellresearched, wellwritten nonfiction.
There were lots of little sidebars, too, which were sometimes helpful, and sometimes not, For instance, at one point the author uses the word "savants" and then in a little sidebar the definition is "smartypants thinkers including scientists, engineers, and scholars.
" Why the judgmental use of the term "smartypants" Why not just "wise, learned people"
On the plus side, this book covers some of the lesserknown thieves and thieving events in history, and it doesn't explicitly glorify the worst in human nature.
But it does sort of slyly celebrate the lessthanstellar actions of these people, Or maybe it's just my mood, Right now I want to read about people who inspire me, people who have done or will do good things, There's too much negativity in the present I don't want to deal with the negativity of the past, Fun book. Got hooked by the book, It was really fun to see a lot of people who are known as good to be bad, Though a few of the people in the book are also actually really bad, there were some chapters about people who I didnt know about like Robert Smalls.
Really good book. Anybody would like to read a book this good, Had to finish this in one day! Ms, DuMont does a great job presenting facts in an entertaining style, Kids will love it especially the information about lesser known people from history, What do Mother Theresa, Honest Abe, and Mahatma Gandhi have in common Theyre all too good for this book, thats what,

In this exciting third book in Brianna DuMonts Changed History series, its the thieves, pirates, and rogues who alter history, Sure, there are a few familiar faces like Queen Elizabeth I and Thomas Edison, but even behind their angelic smiles are cunning con artists who stole their way to gold and greatness.
Inside youll find fascinating stories about:

The Venetians
Francisco Pizarro
Queen Elizabeth I
Catherine the Great
Napoleon
Madame Chang
Robert Fortune
Robert Smalls
Boss Tweed
Thomas Edison
Vincenzo Perugia
Klaus Fuchs

Follow the trail of these twelve troublemakers to uncover the dishonest origins of the Louvre museum in Paris, the modernization of New York City, and the creation of Hollywood.
Find out why the Mona Lisa is the most iconic painting in the world and who propelled her to fame, Hint: Its not her creator, Leonardo da Vinci, Watch empires rise and fall with the theft of a simple tea plant, Enjoy learning about how much our world owes to miscreants through the tales of these thrilling thieves!,