(4) K-3 Score with Sports Math series. Sports-specific word problems, including calculating batting averages, field goal percentages, and field dimensions, challenge third graders to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. In each book, the final problem evolves from a narrative woven throughout. Thanks to a clean layout, questions are clearly distinguished from answers, which helpfully explain the mathematics involved. Captioned photographs add interest to the textbooklike design. Math problem-solving tips are appended. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review covers these Score with Sports Math titles: Score with Baseball Math, Score with Basketball Math, Score with Football Math, Score with Race Car Math, Score with Soccer Math, and Score with Track and Field Math.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

(4) K-3 Score with Sports Math series. Sports-specific word problems, including calculating batting averages, field goal percentages, and field dimensions, challenge third graders to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. In each book, the final problem evolves from a narrative woven throughout. Thanks to a clean layout, questions are clearly distinguished from answers, which helpfully explain the mathematics involved. Captioned photographs add interest to the textbooklike design. Math problem-solving tips are appended. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review covers these Score with Sports Math titles: Score with Baseball Math, Score with Basketball Math, Score with Football Math, Score with Race Car Math, Score with Soccer Math, and Score with Track and Field Math.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

(4) K-3 Score with Sports Math series. Sports-specific word problems, including calculating batting averages, field goal percentages, and field dimensions, challenge third graders to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. In each book, the final problem evolves from a narrative woven throughout. Thanks to a clean layout, questions are clearly distinguished from answers, which helpfully explain the mathematics involved. Captioned photographs add interest to the textbooklike design. Math problem-solving tips are appended. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review covers these Score with Sports Math titles: Score with Baseball Math, Score with Basketball Math, Score with Football Math, Score with Race Car Math, Score with Soccer Math, and Score with Track and Field Math.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

(4) K-3 Score with Sports Math series. Sports-specific word problems, including calculating batting averages, field goal percentages, and field dimensions, challenge third graders to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. In each book, the final problem evolves from a narrative woven throughout. Thanks to a clean layout, questions are clearly distinguished from answers, which helpfully explain the mathematics involved. Captioned photographs add interest to the textbooklike design. Math problem-solving tips are appended. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review covers these Score with Sports Math titles: Score with Baseball Math, Score with Basketball Math, Score with Football Math, Score with Race Car Math, Score with Soccer Math, and Score with Track and Field Math.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

(4) K-3 Score with Sports Math series. Sports-specific word problems, including calculating batting averages, field goal percentages, and field dimensions, challenge third graders to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. In each book, the final problem evolves from a narrative woven throughout. Thanks to a clean layout, questions are clearly distinguished from answers, which helpfully explain the mathematics involved. Captioned photographs add interest to the textbooklike design. Math problem-solving tips are appended. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review covers these Score with Sports Math titles: Score with Baseball Math, Score with Basketball Math, Score with Football Math, Score with Race Car Math, Score with Soccer Math, and Score with Track and Field Math.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

(4) K-3 Score with Sports Math series. Sports-specific word problems, including calculating batting averages, field goal percentages, and field dimensions, challenge third graders to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. In each book, the final problem evolves from a narrative woven throughout. Thanks to a clean layout, questions are clearly distinguished from answers, which helpfully explain the mathematics involved. Captioned photographs add interest to the textbooklike design. Math problem-solving tips are appended. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review covers these Score with Sports Math titles: Score with Baseball Math, Score with Basketball Math, Score with Football Math, Score with Race Car Math, Score with Soccer Math, and Score with Track and Field Math.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

(4) 4-6 Champion Sports Story series. Each sports-themed novel sets its protagonist on a life-lesson journey of hard work, camaraderie, and friendship. Conflicts surface both on the field (Matty learns to play goalie in Matty) and off (in Tony's, Tony must quit football to help support his family). Each easy-to-read, character-driven, predictable story is enhanced with engaging sports-action details. Review covers these Champion Sports Story titles: Rounding Third, Heading Home, Tony's Last Touchdown, Matty in the Goal, Todd Goes for the Goal, and Batting Ninth.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

(4) 4-6 Champion Sports Story series. Each sports-themed novel sets its protagonist on a life-lesson journey of hard work, camaraderie, and friendship. Conflicts surface both on the field (Matty learns to play goalie in Matty) and off (in Tony's, Tony must quit football to help support his family). Each easy-to-read, character-driven, predictable story is enhanced with engaging sports-action details. Review covers these Champion Sports Story titles: Rounding Third, Heading Home, Tony's Last Touchdown, Matty in the Goal, Todd Goes for the Goal, and Batting Ninth.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

(4) 4-6 Eyewitness Books series. This introduction chronicles the history, exploration, and mysteries and myths concerning the red planet. In a busy design, the accessible text competes for space with many small, captioned photographs, but the volume is suitable for browsing. Timeline, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Cindy Lombardo

(4) 4-6 Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Books series. Mostly double-page spreads detail various aspects of the American Revolution, such as the origins of political unrest; the types of weaponry used; and profiles of individual commanders, spies, and others. Crowded pages teem with high-quality reproductions and photos of individuals, documents, and equipment, however, photos of reenactors aren't identified as such. Ind.

Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman

(4) 4-6 Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Books series. Two dozen subtopics ranging from Native Americans to snake oil salesmen give an overview of U.S. western expansion. In addition to a summary paragraph, each subdivision is well illustrated, sometimes to the point of crowding, with captioned photographs and occasional maps. The brief treatment and random selection of the material make the book best for browsing. Ind.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian