Scott, Elaine

Explains how the Sanctuary for Animals and the Dawn Animal Agency hire out healthy animals for jobs in the performing arts and then use the money to support other animals who are too old or too sick to work themselves.

Discusses various aspects of adoption, as well as some facts about genes and heredity.

Explains Pluto's reassignment on August 24, 2006, from planet to dwarf planet. Includes illustrations.

Presents interesting facts about sleep. Describes acts that sleeping people have committed and discusses how people who believe they have been abducted by aliens may have a sleep-paralysis condition. Offers information about the effects of skipping sleep and the condition of narcolepsy.

An overview of banking, its history, its services, how banks earn money with your money, and how banking laws ensure protection for your savings.

An introduction to the stock market and the world of financial investing including an explanation of stocks and bonds, the various trading that is done and how profits and losses are accrued.

After football fever causes seventeen-year-old Beth to become an unwitting participant in the vandalism of a rival high school, her fight for her civil rights brings her both disillusionment and a recognition of new loyalities.

Photo essay shows how special effects are created for movies, from idea to design to final take, and introduces some of the many people involved in the process.

Uses an insider's view of the making of the ten-part series "Ramona" to depict how a television show is created, from the script adaptation and auditions to the actual filming and final editing.