I wasn't too sure about The Life Heroic by Elizabeth Svoboda when I first started it because I wasn't sure who should be reading it. But the further into the book I got, the more I enjoyed reading about the different examples of heroes and how they were always ordinary people. I'm still not sure if this is a book you should use in school to teach your students how to be a good citizen in their community or if it's something to provide for your children at home. The book is written in a way that is easy to understand and I do like that questions are provided in the back of the book to cover the material with your young readers.