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4-6New Wave series.
Focusing on four rising stars in football, hockey, baseball, and basketball, these series biographies offer rushed, laudatory accounts of the subjects' personal lives, though the emphasis is on their professional careers. Sports fans will appreciate the detailed descriptions of key games and seasons, boxed statistics, and average-quality color photos of the athletes in action. Ind. [Review covers these New Wave titles: Jevon Kearse, Scott Gomez, Todd Helton, Vince Carter.]