(4) 4-6 Adventure Outdoors series. These books highlight activities and sports for outdoorsy kids. The instructive overviews cover required skills for each activity; recommended equipment, clothing, and gear; safety suggestions; and necessary preparations and guidelines. Sidebars offer statistics and interesting real-life anecdotes. A creative mix of color photos accompany the rather awkward narratives. Quizzes help ensure readers are prepared for the activity. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Adventure Outdoors titles: Wild Biking, Wild Rock, Wild Snow, Wild Trail, Wild Underground, and Wild Water.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) 4-6 Adventure Outdoors series. These books highlight activities and sports for outdoorsy kids. The instructive overviews cover required skills for each activity; recommended equipment, clothing, and gear; safety suggestions; and necessary preparations and guidelines. Sidebars offer statistics and interesting real-life anecdotes. A creative mix of color photos accompany the rather awkward narratives. Quizzes help ensure readers are prepared for the activity. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Adventure Outdoors titles: Wild Biking, Wild Rock, Wild Snow, Wild Trail, Wild Underground, and Wild Water.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) 4-6 Adventure Outdoors series. These books highlight activities and sports for outdoorsy kids. The instructive overviews cover required skills for each activity; recommended equipment, clothing, and gear; safety suggestions; and necessary preparations and guidelines. Sidebars offer statistics and interesting real-life anecdotes. A creative mix of color photos accompany the rather awkward narratives. Quizzes help ensure readers are prepared for the activity. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Adventure Outdoors titles: Wild Biking, Wild Rock, Wild Snow, Wild Trail, Wild Underground, and Wild Water.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) 4-6 Adventure Outdoors series. These books highlight activities and sports for outdoorsy kids. The instructive overviews cover required skills for each activity; recommended equipment, clothing, and gear; safety suggestions; and necessary preparations and guidelines. Sidebars offer statistics and interesting real-life anecdotes. A creative mix of color photos accompany the rather awkward narratives. Quizzes help ensure readers are prepared for the activity. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Adventure Outdoors titles: Wild Biking, Wild Rock, Wild Snow, Wild Trail, Wild Underground, and Wild Water.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) 4-6 Adventure Outdoors series. These books highlight activities and sports for outdoorsy kids. The instructive overviews cover required skills for each activity; recommended equipment, clothing, and gear; safety suggestions; and necessary preparations and guidelines. Sidebars offer statistics and interesting real-life anecdotes. A creative mix of color photos accompany the rather awkward narratives. Quizzes help ensure readers are prepared for the activity. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Adventure Outdoors titles: Wild Biking, Wild Rock, Wild Snow, Wild Trail, Wild Underground, and Wild Water.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) 4-6 Adventure Outdoors series. These books highlight activities and sports for outdoorsy kids. The instructive overviews cover required skills for each activity; recommended equipment, clothing, and gear; safety suggestions; and necessary preparations and guidelines. Sidebars offer statistics and interesting real-life anecdotes. A creative mix of color photos accompany the rather awkward narratives. Quizzes help ensure readers are prepared for the activity. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Adventure Outdoors titles: Wild Biking, Wild Rock, Wild Snow, Wild Trail, Wild Underground, and Wild Water.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) 4-6 Groundbreakers series. These formulaic biographies offer a basic overview of each subject's life and accomplishments. Illustrations, captioned color photos, and text boxes clutter the pages but help to break up the readable texts. These books will be adequate for report writers, however, those looking for more substance will need to search elsewhere. A time line is included in each book. There are five other books in this series. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman

(4) 4-6 Creative Lives series. Suitable for report writers, the books in this series depict their subjects as sometimes flawed individuals with realistic hopes and fears. Sidebars provide quotations and historical context. Photographs and illustrations enliven the text, but the busy page design is distracting. Each book includes a timeline. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these titles: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Coco Chanel.]

Reviewer: Kathleen Smith