(4) K-3 SportsZone: Playmakers series. Focusing on the stars' sports accomplishments and game highlights, these brief, adulatory profiles also touch on the players' childhoods and personal lives along with mentioning charitable contributions to their communities. Brees and Bryant are slightly better organized than the other two. The many clear photographs will satisfy sports fans. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these SportsZone: Playmakers titles: Drew Brees, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Sidney Crosby.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) YA Superstars of Pro Football series. Each volume covers the career of a current professional football player. This series reveals more personal details than most, including a photograph of Roethlisberger's damaged motorcycle and Ware's neck injury (but no mention of Favre's "sexting"). The cramped pages are packed with action photos, highlighted pull-quotes, and "Cross-Currents" sidebars that direct readers to more detailed information on related football facts, coaches, and players. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Superstars of Pro Football titles: Ben Roethlisberger, DeMarcus Ware, Jason Witten, Brett Favre, DeSean Jackson, and Drew Brees.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

(4) K-3 Super Bowl Superstars series. This volume begins with a brief cliffhanger preview of the 2010 Super Bowl game. The text then delves into quarterback Brees's early life and career before shifting to the big game, showing how he led the Saints to victory. Other key players are briefly highlighted. Analysis is slight; the clear action photographs are what might attract football fans. Reading list. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz