This is a terrific biographical series about 6 powerful women in history.  The series includes:  Cleopatra, Agrippina, Mary Tudor, Catherine De’Medici, Marie Antoinette and Cixi.  The text is well-written and presented in a reader-friendly format with lots of interesting pictures and paintings of people, places and artifacts from the period.  I enjoyed how the illustrations and pictures helped put the information in context and brought the time period and settings alive.  The text is written at Accelerated Reader level 6.8 (1 point) which is perfect for the target audience.  When presented in a fascinating format such as this book, our middle school students are eager to read biographies.