(4) YA Facts at Your Fingertips: Invention and Technology series. These books provide a wealth of knowledge about their titular topics. Each gives background information, then enumerates and discusses items within the field of study. Dozens of inserts add interest but contribute to crowded pages. Photographs, drawings, and diagrams further extend the readable if dry texts. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Facts at Your Fingertips: Invention and Technology titles: Power and Energy, Military and Security, Buildings and Structures, and Land and Water Transportation.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) YA Facts at Your Fingertips: Invention and Technology series. These books provide a wealth of knowledge about their titular topics. Each gives background information, then enumerates and discusses items within the field of study. Dozens of inserts add interest but contribute to crowded pages. Photographs, drawings, and diagrams further extend the readable if dry texts. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Facts at Your Fingertips: Invention and Technology titles: Power and Energy, Military and Security, Buildings and Structures, and Land and Water Transportation.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) YA Facts at Your Fingertips: Invention and Technology series. This book covers a broad range of information, providing a brief history of early medicine before moving on to such topics as drugs, diagnosis and diagnostic devices, and surgical procedures. Reproduction, genetics, and fertility are also addressed. Photographs, drawings, and inserts extend the dry text but contribute to crowded pages. This offers a satisfactory introduction to the health services field. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) YA Facts at Your Fingertips: Invention and Technology series. These books provide a wealth of knowledge about their titular topics. Each gives background information, then enumerates and discusses items within the field of study. Dozens of inserts add interest but contribute to crowded pages. Photographs, drawings, and diagrams further extend the readable if dry texts. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Facts at Your Fingertips: Invention and Technology titles: Power and Energy, Military and Security, Buildings and Structures, and Land and Water Transportation.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) YA Facts at Your Fingertips: Invention and Technology series. These books provide a wealth of knowledge about their titular topics. Each gives background information, then enumerates and discusses items within the field of study. Dozens of inserts add interest but contribute to crowded pages. Photographs, drawings, and diagrams further extend the readable if dry texts. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Facts at Your Fingertips: Invention and Technology titles: Power and Energy, Military and Security, Buildings and Structures, and Land and Water Transportation.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) YA Facts at Your Fingertips: Invention and Technology series. This book chronicles the story of human flight from the earliest attempts to modern space travel. Brief sections dryly cover balloons and airships, propeller-driven planes, jets, supersonic aircraft, rockets, artificial satellites, spaceships, space stations, and space exploration. Aircraft enthusiasts will appreciate the many photographs and images. Additional information is provided in numerous inserts that contribute to crowded pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Catherine Brighton. As a ten-year-old, Teddy Roosevelt, the future twenty-sixth president of the United States, spent a year abroad with his family. These brief journal entries, edited from the original diary that Teddy kept during that time, capture the young boy's sense of fun, as well as provide a glimpse of his family's privileged lifestyle. Handsome illustrations arranged in panels add accurate period detail and interest. Notes on keeping a journal are appended.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute