(4) 4-6 Kids with Special Needs: IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) series. These books provide up-to-date discussions of various disabilities, including their definitions, causes, diagnoses, treatments, and school support. Each book opens with a fictional account of a kid with the titular disability; though the writing is awkward, the stories may help readers understand those with the special need. Unremarkable art illustrates the short-story sections while helpful photos accompany the nonfiction. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review includes these Kids with Special Needs: IDEA titles: The Hidden Child, I Can Do It!, My Name Is Not Slow, Seeing with Your Fingers, Speed Racer, and Why Can't I Learn Like Everyone Else?

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) 4-6 Kids with Special Needs: IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) series. These books provide up-to-date discussions of various disabilities, including their definitions, causes, diagnoses, treatments, and school support. Each book opens with a fictional account of a kid with the titular disability; though the writing is awkward, the stories may help readers understand those with the special need. Unremarkable art illustrates the short-story sections while helpful photos accompany the nonfiction. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review includes these Kids with Special Needs: IDEA titles: The Hidden Child, I Can Do It!, My Name Is Not Slow, Seeing with Your Fingers, Speed Racer, and Why Can't I Learn Like Everyone Else?

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) 4-6 Kids with Special Needs: IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) series. These books provide up-to-date discussions of various disabilities, including their definitions, causes, diagnoses, treatments, and school support. Each book opens with a fictional account of a kid with the titular disability; though the writing is awkward, the stories may help readers understand those with the special need. Unremarkable art illustrates the short-story sections while helpful photos accompany the nonfiction. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review includes these Kids with Special Needs: IDEA titles: The Hidden Child, I Can Do It!, My Name Is Not Slow, Seeing with Your Fingers, Speed Racer, and Why Can't I Learn Like Everyone Else?

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) 4-6 Kids with Special Needs: IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) series. These books provide up-to-date discussions of various disabilities, including their definitions, causes, diagnoses, treatments, and school support. Each book opens with a fictional account of a kid with the titular disability; though the writing is awkward, the stories may help readers understand those with the special need. Unremarkable art illustrates the short-story sections while helpful photos accompany the nonfiction. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review includes these Kids with Special Needs: IDEA titles: The Hidden Child, I Can Do It!, My Name Is Not Slow, Seeing with Your Fingers, Speed Racer, and Why Can't I Learn Like Everyone Else?

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) 4-6 Kids with Special Needs: IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) series. These books provide up-to-date discussions of various disabilities, including their definitions, causes, diagnoses, treatments, and school support. Each book opens with a fictional account of a kid with the titular disability; though the writing is awkward, the stories may help readers understand those with the special need. Unremarkable art illustrates the short-story sections while helpful photos accompany the nonfiction. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review includes these Kids with Special Needs: IDEA titles: The Hidden Child, I Can Do It!, My Name Is Not Slow, Seeing with Your Fingers, Speed Racer, and Why Can't I Learn Like Everyone Else?

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) 4-6 Kids with Special Needs: IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) series. These books provide up-to-date discussions of various disabilities, including their definitions, causes, diagnoses, treatments, and school support. Each book opens with a fictional account of a kid with the titular disability; though the writing is awkward, the stories may help readers understand those with the special need. Unremarkable art illustrates the short-story sections while helpful photos accompany the nonfiction. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review includes these Kids with Special Needs: IDEA titles: The Hidden Child, I Can Do It!, My Name Is Not Slow, Seeing with Your Fingers, Speed Racer, and Why Can't I Learn Like Everyone Else?

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) 4-6 Changing Face of Modern Families series. These well-meaning but bland volumes attempt to debunk the myth of a standardized American family, focusing on such issues as adoption, gay parents, and interfaith and mixed-race marriages. Facts and opinions are provided from various professionals in addition to individuals' personal accounts. "What Do You Think?" questions invite discussion. There are eight other fall 2009 books in this series. Reading list, website. Bib., ind. Review covers these Changing Face of Modern Families titles: Gay & Lesbian Parents, Multiracial Families, Adoptive Parents, Blended Families, Teen Parents, and What Is a Family?

Reviewer: Christina Dorr

(4) YA Survivors: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances series. In Never Again, archival photographs depict events leading up to and surrounding the Holocaust. In Defense, graphic images of skulls, bombed-out buildings, and teenage soldiers speak louder than words. In both books, the survivors' stories are more compelling than the somewhat choppy (if thought-provoking) main texts. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Survivors: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances titles: In Defense of Our Country and Never Again.

Reviewer: Claudia Harrington DeShay

(4) YA Survivors: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances series. In Never Again, archival photographs depict events leading up to and surrounding the Holocaust. In Defense, graphic images of skulls, bombed-out buildings, and teenage soldiers speak louder than words. In both books, the survivors' stories are more compelling than the somewhat choppy (if thought-provoking) main texts. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Survivors: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances titles: In Defense of Our Country and Never Again.

Reviewer: Claudia Harrington DeShay