This biography is from the series, Lives Cut Short and chronicles the short life of Michael Jackson. The book talks about Michael’s life – the good and the bad. It discusses Micheal’s life growing up, the Jackson 5, going solo, Thriller, marriage, family and his death. This book really coves it all! In its chapter book format, the book presents information in all aspects of Micheal Jackson’s life. The book has nice photographs of Michael and his life and additional info boxes. The end has a timeline, quick facts, a glossary, and further reading. This book would be best for 6th grade and up just for the overload of info. For students doing biography reports, this book might be a challenge to pull information out of because it just has so much information. However,  the information is there and for those students interested in Michael Jackson they will enjoy reading it cover to cover to do the report.