Joan Axelrod-Contrada

Author of This or That Animal Debate: A Rip-Roaring Game of Either/Or Questions (Edge Books: This or That?)

About the Author

Joan Axelrod-Contrada is a journalist and author who has written several books for high school and middle school students. She is a correspondent for the Boston Globe and has taught freelance writing at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst

Series

Zeke the Weather Geek

Works by Joan Axelrod-Contrada

Career Opportunities in Politics, Government, and Activism (2003) 50 copies

The Lizzie Borden Axe Murder Trial: A Headline Court Case (2000) 14 copies, 1 review

Plessy v. Ferguson : separate but unequal (2009) 8 copies

Poverty in America: Cause or Effect? (Controversy!) (2010) 8 copies

The Facts about Drugs and Society (Drugs (Benchmark)) (2008) 7 copies

Ghoulish Ghost Stories (Edge Books: Scary Stories) (2010) 7 copies

Zeke the Weather Geek: There's a Lizard in My Blizzard (2023) 7 copies

Women Who Led Nations (Profiles Series ; Vol 28) (1999) 6 copies

A Historical Atlas of Colonial America (The United States, Historical Atlases of the Growth of a New Nation) (2005) 5 copies

The World's Most Famous Ghosts (Edge Books: The Ghost Files) (2011) 5 copies

A primary source history of the colony of Rhode Island (2006) 5 copies

The 12 worst shipwrecks of all time (2019) 4 copies

The Kids' Guide to Mummies (Edge Books: Kids' Guides) (2011) 3 copies

Haunted Houses Around the World (Snap Books: It's Haunted!) (2017) 3 copies

Halloween and Day of the Dead Traditions Around the World (World Traditions) (2013) 3 copies

Isabel Allende (Today's Writers & Their Works) (Today's Writers and Their Works) (2011) 2 copies

Reno V. ACLU: Internet Censorship (2007) 2 copies

Mini Mind Controllers: Fungi, Bacteria, and Other Tiny Zombie Makers (Edge Books: Real-Life Zombies) (2016) 2 copies

Body Snatchers: Flies, Wasps, and Other Creepy Crawly Zombie Makers (Real-Life Zombies) (2016) 1 copy

GALERÌA DEL TERROR: Historias para no dormir 1 copy

The facts about drugs and society 1 copy

The Ultimate Kids' Guide to Fun: Experiments, Projects, Games and Fascinating Facts Every Kid Should Know (Kids' Guides) (2011) 1 copy

Mia Hamm: Soccer Player (Ferguson Career Biographies) (2005) 1 copy

Pesky Critters!: Squirrels, Raccoons, and Other Furry Invaders (2013) 1 copy

Reno v. ACLU : Internet censorship 1 copy

Zeke the Weather Geek: There’s Mud in my Flood! (2025) 1 copy

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Gender: female
Education: Boston University (BA|History|1980)

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The Lizzie Borden Axe Murder Trial: A Headline Court Case (Headline Court Cases) by Joan Axelrod-Contrada

A Mundane, dull, mediocre book of the trial of Lizzie Borden accused of the Thursday morning, August 4, 1892 murder of her step mother Abby and her father Andrew.

While the book contains many facts, it falls flat in adequately depicting the public fascination lo these 117 years later of the very compelling and obsessively researched tale of Lizzie Borden.

Lizzie was no doubt a strange and odd Victorian woman who most likely took a hatchet and whacked her step mother 19 times and then followed show more through with giving papa Andrew 11 spite-driven blows.

I give this book 1/2 stars...not recommended. show less

Jan 4, 2009