(4) YA Daily Life in America in the 1800s series. Everyday life for nineteenth-century Americans was fraught with great change and shifting influences. For the report-driven reader, these titles provide straightforward, chronological discussions highlighting the significant people and events that affected family life, work, political ideology, and spirituality. Primary sources, archival photographs and drawings, and maps offer further detail but do little to alter the textbooklike impression. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Daily Life in America in the 1800s titles: Scandals and Glory, The Sweat of Their Brow, Buggies, Bicycles, and Iron Horses, Outlaws and Lawmen, and Reviving the Spirit, Reforming Society.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(4) YA Daily Life in America in the 1800s series. Everyday life for nineteenth-century Americans was fraught with great change and shifting influences. For the report-driven reader, these titles provide straightforward, chronological discussions highlighting the significant people and events that affected family life, work, political ideology, and spirituality. Primary sources, archival photographs and drawings, and maps offer further detail but do little to alter the textbooklike impression. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Daily Life in America in the 1800s titles: Scandals and Glory, The Sweat of Their Brow, Buggies, Bicycles, and Iron Horses, Outlaws and Lawmen, and Reviving the Spirit, Reforming Society.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(4) YA Survivors: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances series. Enemy provides the medical background for various illnesses and allows real teens to tell their stories. Lost, part wilderness-training manual, part lesson in risk-taking and fortitude, combines survivors' stories with information about the body's reactions to extreme conditions. Both books, inspirational and informative, are illustrated with pictures of the survivors and some awkward staged photos. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Survivors: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances titles: Lost! and An Enemy Within.

Reviewer: Claudia Harrington DeShay

(4) YA Survivors: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances series. Discussion of these emotionally charged issues addresses cultural, familial, and societal realities that contribute to these situations and the laws that either allow, condone, or seek to correct them. Survivors share their personal accounts (some are quite extensive) and, along with experts, offer coping and survival tips. Pictures of survivors and awkward staged photos illustrate the texts. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Survivors: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances title: We Shall All Be Free, Gender Danger, Students in Danger, The World Gone Mad, and When Danger Hits Home.

Reviewer: Claudia Harrington DeShay