Explains why it is necessary to be careful around strangers and offers advice on ways to stay safe.

Shares poems and personal stories on surviving bullying, with a guide to talking to parents, quizzes, and tips on dealing with the fear.

Young readers learn all about pollution and how to protect earth with Big Bird and his Sesame Street friends. Keep water clean, pick up litter, and recycle to help stop pollution.

With CIA director Thomas Stansfield dead, his protégé, Dr. Irene Kennedy, is poised to take over the reins of the agency, while CIA operative Mitch Rapp heads to the Middle East to try to stop the chaos that could ignite World War III.

"The very first police in what is now the United States were Native American warriors who kept order during hunts. Today, American law enforcement includes the Texas Rangers, Secret Service, and U.S. Marshals Service, among many others. Find out more in Law Enforcement, one of the titles in The Hidden World of Crime series." -- Back cover.

As Lu waits in the rain after school, many people offer to take her home but she will only go with someone on the list of those allowed to pick her up. Includes resources for adults and a form for the reader to make his or her own list, with a parent or guardian's help.

"Sophie, or Agent S, is on a mission to keep herself and her brother, Will, safe. Readers will uncover safe ways to travel to school and how to stay safe at school"--

"Describes the various new generation vehicles that western nations are using in the war on terrorism"--

Mrs. Meyer from the local fire department comes to Ella Mentry School to teach the kids about fire safety, but Mrs. Meyer likes fire just a little too much.

Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. Balto lives a quiet existence as a sled dog--until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in the remote town of Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without an antitoxin serum, they will perish--and the closest supply is 650 miles away! No roads exist in the icy wilderness. The only way to get the serum to Nome is by...