(4) 4-6 Ace Your Science Project series. These volumes encourage students to explore common topics in chemistry, life sciences, and physics. Sections of factual information and suggestions for science fair projects are also included. Each activity is accompanied by detailed instructions, including color diagrams and safety warnings, and they vary in degree of difficulty and equipment requirements. There are four other fall 2009 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review covers these Ace Your Science Project titles: Ace Your Exercise and Nutrition Science Project, Ace Your Food Science Project, Ace Your Forces and Motion Science Project, Ace Your Science Project About the Senses, and Ace Your Sports Science Project.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(4) 4-6 Ace Your Science Project series. Dozens of life- and physical-science activities are presented with background information, step-by-step instructions, and suggestions for extending to the science fair level. Many of the experiments are quite involved, requiring access to difficult-to-obtain scientific materials, the use of mathematics, and careful data collection (sometimes over extended periods of time). Color illustrations and important safety information are included. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review covers these Ace Your Science Project titles: Ace Your Animal Science Project, and Ace Your Ecology and Environmental Science Project, Ace Your Human Biology Science Project, Ace Your Math and Measuring Science Project, Ace Your Physical Science Project, and Ace Your Science Project Using Chemistry Magic and Toys.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(4) 4-6 Ace Your Science Project series. These volumes encourage students to explore common topics in chemistry, life sciences, and physics. Sections of factual information and suggestions for science fair projects are also included. Each activity is accompanied by detailed instructions, including color diagrams and safety warnings, and they vary in degree of difficulty and equipment requirements. There are four other fall 2009 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Ind. Review covers these Ace Your Science Project titles: Ace Your Exercise and Nutrition Science Project, Ace Your Food Science Project, Ace Your Forces and Motion Science Project, Ace Your Science Project About the Senses, and Ace Your Sports Science Project.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(4) 4-6 Great Minds of Science series. In spite of the dry book design and grainy photographs, this is a relatively readable biography of Salk that focuses on his work developing a polio vaccine. Tocci includes scientific explanations when necessary and gives readers a sense of both Salk's work and his character. Personal narratives and detailed source notes give credibility to the text. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) YA Great Minds of Science series. The books in this series clearly introduce their subjects and explain their contributions to science. Less is known about Copernicus than about Fleming, but both volumes ably contextualize their subjects in their own time and include quotations from primary material. The books feature black-and-white photos of uneven quality and a section of suggested activities relating to each scientist's work. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these titles: Copernicus and Alexander Fleming.]

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian