(3) YA Junior Drug Awareness series. This series provides useful, balanced, and comprehensive information about various drugs, including their street names, why people take them, what the dangers are, how to recognize signs of addiction, and what the treatment options are. The series' title implies a young audience, but the detailed information and occasionally quite graphic photos make this appropriate for middle school and up. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Junior Drug Awareness titles: Marijuana, Ecstasy and Other Club Drugs, Inhalants and Solvents, Amphetamines and Other Stimulants, and Cocaine and Crack.

Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee

(4) 4-6 Events That Shaped America series. Each book in this series gives a brief overview of an event that had a lasting and profound effect on U.S. history. The books vary in quality--some more informative and interesting than others--but all are sketchy, lacking in detail. Sidebars, boxed quotes, photographs, and drawings enhance the texts. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Events That Shaped America titles: The Atom Bomb Project, The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, The Writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", The Oregon Trail, The Salem Witch Trials, and The Scottsboro Case.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) 4-6 Making of a Champion series. This ambitious series strives to cover all aspects of the featured sport, from its history and development to the equipment and skills required to succeed. Sidebars, color and black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and charts combine with a detail-rich text to provide a busy, thorough, and well-researched introduction for the hard-core sports enthusiast. Directory, reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Making of a Champion titles: An International Soccer Star, A Basketball All-Star, A Football All-Pro, A Baseball All-Star, A World-Class Ice Skater, and A World-Class Boxer.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(4) 4-6 Making of a Champion series. This ambitious series strives to cover all aspects of the featured sport, from its history and development to the equipment and skills required to succeed. Sidebars, color and black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and charts combine with a detail-rich text to provide a busy, thorough, and well-researched introduction for the hard-core sports enthusiast. Directory, reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Making of a Champion titles: An International Soccer Star, A Basketball All-Star, A Football All-Pro, A Baseball All-Star, A World-Class Ice Skater, and A World-Class Boxer.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(4) K-3 Raintree Biographies series. Plentiful reproductions of the work of each subject contribute to the cluttered design of the dryly written profiles. Each two-page section focuses on an aspect of the artist's life, and sidebars provide quotations from the artists themselves as well as cultural and artistic context. Although superficial, these books give readers a basic understanding of these pivotal figures. Timeline, reading list. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Raintree Biographies titles: Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Dorothea Lange, and Maya Lin.]

Reviewer: Norah Piehl