I received three books by this author for Christmas from my Secret Santa at LibraryThing. Of the three, I think this is the weakest. Instead of focusing on Alice Ramsey's life, it covers only her first trip across the nation. I would rather have seen more information about her instead of just facts about the trip.

However, the trip is covered in a clear and factual way, and it is interesting in and of itself, even if it's not what I was expecting in a biography. It's bound to be interesting to anybody who wants a change from the normal Women's History lineup of Earheart and Curie and Helen Keller, or to any child particularly interested in cars... especially if they're girls and are getting the idea that it's *wrong* for girls to like cars, that that's a boy thing.

I worry that I'm judging it unfairly and comparing it to the other two books I have by this author, which are just so good, so I'll give it a full 4 stars and leave it at that. ( )