(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 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 Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction series. High school students assist police using forensic technology in this action-filled series, a mix of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Sweet Valley High. Each tale is followed by a guide to its vocabulary, technology, and background. The factual information is more engaging than the credulity-straining stories with hokey comic-style illustrations. There are six other spring 2009 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction titles: Close-Up, Devil's Canyon, Face from the Past, Over the Edge, Poison and Peril, and The Trickster's Image.

Reviewer: Beth L. Meister

(4) YA Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction series. High school students assist police using forensic technology in this action-filled series, a mix of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Sweet Valley High. Each tale is followed by a guide to its vocabulary, technology, and background. The factual information is more engaging than the credulity-straining stories with hokey comic-style illustrations. There are six other spring 2009 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction titles: Close-Up, Devil's Canyon, Face from the Past, Over the Edge, Poison and Peril, and The Trickster's Image.

Reviewer: Beth L. Meister

(4) YA Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction series. High school students assist police using forensic technology in this action-filled series, a mix of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Sweet Valley High. Each tale is followed by a guide to its vocabulary, technology, and background. The factual information is more engaging than the credulity-straining stories with hokey comic-style illustrations. There are six other spring 2009 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction titles: Close-Up, Devil's Canyon, Face from the Past, Over the Edge, Poison and Peril, and The Trickster's Image.

Reviewer: Beth L. Meister

(4) YA Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction series. High school students assist police using forensic technology in this action-filled series, a mix of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Sweet Valley High. Each tale is followed by a guide to its vocabulary, technology, and background. The factual information is more engaging than the credulity-straining stories with hokey comic-style illustrations. There are six other spring 2009 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction titles: Close-Up, Devil's Canyon, Face from the Past, Over the Edge, Poison and Peril, and The Trickster's Image.

Reviewer: Beth L. Meister

(4) YA Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction series. High school students assist police using forensic technology in this action-filled series, a mix of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Sweet Valley High. Each tale is followed by a guide to its vocabulary, technology, and background. The factual information is more engaging than the credulity-straining stories with hokey comic-style illustrations. There are six other spring 2009 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction titles: Close-Up, Devil's Canyon, Face from the Past, Over the Edge, Poison and Peril, and The Trickster's Image.

Reviewer: Beth L. Meister

(4) YA Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction series. High school students assist police using forensic technology in this action-filled series, a mix of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Sweet Valley High. Each tale is followed by a guide to its vocabulary, technology, and background. The factual information is more engaging than the credulity-straining stories with hokey comic-style illustrations. There are six other spring 2009 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction titles: Close-Up, Devil's Canyon, Face from the Past, Over the Edge, Poison and Peril, and The Trickster's Image.

Reviewer: Beth L. Meister

(4) YA Antidepressants series. This coherent series relates the basics about depression. It spotlights personal experiences, sometimes in the form of formulaically written running narratives (e.g., in Advertising, teenager Annette considers using antidepressants to help cope with her mother's death) and often accompanied by stiff staged photos. Each spread features a sidebar, chart, or photo to help break up the text. There are eight other fall 2006 books in the series. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Antidepressants titles: Antidepressants and Advertising, Antidepressants and Social Anxiety, Antidepressants and Suicide, The History of Depression, and "Natural" Alternatives to Antidepressants.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) YA Antidepressants series. This coherent series relates the basics about depression. It spotlights personal experiences, sometimes in the form of formulaically written running narratives (e.g., in Advertising, teenager Annette considers using antidepressants to help cope with her mother's death) and often accompanied by stiff staged photos. Each spread features a sidebar, chart, or photo to help break up the text. There are eight other fall 2006 books in the series. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Antidepressants titles: Antidepressants and Advertising, Antidepressants and Social Anxiety, Antidepressants and Suicide, The History of Depression, and "Natural" Alternatives to Antidepressants.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) YA Careers with Character series. Combining career discussion with character education, these books first describe the job, then use anecdotes, sidebars on ethical decision-making, and questions for the reader to explore integrity, courage, and other virtues in that profession. The tone is often sanctimonious, but the numerous examples personalize the topics. Posed-looking photos illustrate the text. There are thirteen other spring 2003 books in this series. Reading list. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Careers with Character titles: Professional Athlete and Sports Official, Clergy, Special Education Teacher, Nurse, and Manager.]

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

(4) YA North American Indians Today series. Although each book gives some cultural and historical background for a Native American tribal group, its main focus is the struggles and accomplishments of the featured tribe in modern times. Color photos and reproductions appear throughout the sometimes busy format. These informative, accessible titles will be useful resources. There are ten other fall 2003 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these North American Indians Today titles: Creek, Sioux, Crow, Potawatomi, and Osage.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth