Jerry Rice

School Library Journal

Gr 4-6-The football exploits of the San Francisco 49er all-pro wide receiver are documented in this serviceable biography. After a brief look at Rice's high school and college playing days, Evans focuses on relaying the highlights of his subject's record-breaking career. Standard black-and-white photographs appear throughout the book, and an appendix gives college and professional statistics, career highlights, and records. As Rice is both a current star with a number of playing years left in him and likely to be enshrined in the professional Football Hall of Fame, this title should fill the bill for libraries in need of sports biographies aimed at upper-elementary-grade readers.-Tom S. Hurlburt, La Crosse Public Library, WI