Powledge, Fred

Identifies medicinal plants and their natural habitats while also explaining how these plants are found and tested for medical value.

Examines the personal concerns and questions that sometimes trouble adopted youngsters and their families. Also discusses the social and legal aspects of adoption.

Explores the experience of adolescence, its physical and emotional stages, and the relationships between teenagers and parents, other adults, peers, school, the media, and society, and suggests ways of coping with common problems.

Describes the hard work and excitement of circus life as seen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old who performs as juggler, trampoline artist, and horseback rider.

Describes the struggle of the men and women, black and white, who dedicated themselves to breaking segregation in America.

Examines the system of segregation that existed in the United States until the mid-twentieth century and discusses the civil rights movement that changed this system.