(4) YA Got Issues? series. Supported by real-life anecdotes, these updated books discuss why these behaviors happen and how each can affect emotional and physical health. The volumes will be more useful for classroom reports and term papers than as self-help manuals, although both append a list of resources. The stiffly staged stock photos contribute to textbooklike designs. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Got Issues? titles: Are You Doing Risky Things? and Are You Being Bullied?.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

(4) YA Hot Pro/Con Issues series. This lucid and evenhanded if sometimes repetitive look at the divisive subject of doctor-assisted suicide covers both the expected territory--Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Karen Ann Quinlan--and less-trodden ground, including the disability-rights movement's dissent and how good hospice care might alleviate much patient suffering. Color photos of activists on both sides of the issue appear throughout. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) YA Building History series. The popes who commissioned the building of one of the best-known religious structures in the world, the architects who built it, the artists (including Michelangelo) who decorated it, and the various restorers of the chapel are treated in detail in this history that deals with the period from 1473-1994. Although the information is substantive, the absence of color images is a serious limitation. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

(4) YA Way People Live series. A well-organized account of how hundreds of thousands of would-be immigrants lived on Ellis Island in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries waiting to learn whether they would be deported or allowed to live in America. Black-and-white photos of varying quality and sidebars quoting primary documents help bring to life a historically important slice of American history. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Jack Forman