Donovan, Sandra

Explains how to become an effective communicator and discusses how to convey one's ideas via speech, email, letters, or text messages. Discusses how to follow common etiquette rules when it comes to communicating and includes full-color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Examines the experience of teens in Venezuela, looking at a typical day, what happens in school, family life, holidays, work, and entertainment. Includes photographs,a glossary, and a historical time line.

Presents an introductory guide to skin care for adolescents, written in simple text with full-color photographs and illustrations, and describes how to keep skin healthy and avoid breakouts. Includes quiz.

Explores volunteerism, including the benefits to yourself and to others, how to find volunteer work, creating your own projects, and more.

Explores budgeting for teens, including how to make your own budget, evaluating your financial goals and priorities, banking, saving money, making smart spending decisions, and the benefits and dangers of using credit cards.

Chronicles the lives of history's most brutal dictators and military leaders, including Joseph Stalin, Genghis Khan, Qin Shi Huang, and Ghaka the Zulu King.

Photographs and text introduce professional baseball player Derek Jeter and describe his accomplishments with the New York Yankees.

Offers students an overview of stress, explaining why they might feel stress, what the body's response to stress is, how they can relieve stress, and other related topics.

Describes how U.S. government agencies like the FBI, FEMA, National Guard, CDC and others work to keep the country safe from various dangers.

Contains a collection of expressions about sports topics, and gives the history and meaning behind them.