politics, practical

When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making ends meet, she discovers a different way to live, but when her mother is involved in a hit-and-run accident Sam must make some difficult choices.

While trying to focus on a winning soccer season, thirteen-year-old Tess becomes involved in local politics when she learns that all sports programs at her school will be stopped unless a tax levy is passed.

Twelve-year-old evil genius, Oliver, uses his great brain to become the third richest person in the world, and finds that overthrowing foreign dictators is easier than getting the kids in his middle school to vote him class president.

Emma's senator-father is running for president, and when her rebellious style and indifference to rules and convention create problems, she relies on her good friends, who are also the daughters of well-known people, to help her gain perspective.

When Amelia Bedelia runs into her principal, Mr. K., and plants the idea that students should vote on the rules, he decides that her class should be the first to come up with new ideas for running the school.

When they discover the power of the transmitter they built, eleven-year-old Bennet and his best friend Pete send out television broadcasts using Pete's dog to challenge the current governor in his bid for reelection.

Explains how the United States elects its president, discussing the party system, conventions, primaries, and the actual election day.

Analyzes the art of politics--what it is, who takes part, lobbying, modern politics, dirty politics, and projections for the year 2000.

Text with accompanying photographs explain how PACs, or Political Action Committees work and how they and other donors use techniques to get around legal campaign limits, showing how the problem of campaign financing has affected American life.

Explores the history of the election process from Roman times to the present day, describing why and how people around the world vote, votes for women, and party politics.