Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Adventure [Paperback]

Diane Lindsey Reeves (Author), Nancy Heubeck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2001 | Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Career Ideas for Kids

This fun-filled series guides young readers through a multitude of career possibilities based on their specific interests and skills and links their talents to a wide variety of actual professions. Each book is filled with engaging text and playful illustrations that present a wide variety of career themes and options. Coverage begins with a set of questions designed to help kids discover who they are, what they like to do, and what they do best. Careers profiled include: Astronaut, Computer Security Expert, Detective, Firefighter, Oil Rig Worker, Ranch Hand and Welder.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Gr 5-8-These titles take a lighthearted approach to their subjects, offering young people some avenues to explore according to their own interests and skills. Readers are advised not to mark the pages, but they may be tempted to fill in the blanks of the "Get Some Direction" questionnaire. This is followed by fun-to-read descriptions ("The military is no place for a couch potato") of 15 different careers, a list of resources and Web sites, and a personal profile (with photo) of an individual working in the field. In Adventure, a female firefighter talks about the physical challenges and the extended family she has formed with her colleagues. Detective, welder, pilot, oil rig worker, and scuba diver are some of the careers discussed. In Money, an investment banker reveals that her childhood aspiration was to work in a library. E-merchant, technology officer, and venture capitalist are included with other traditional careers such as business manager, lawyer, and advertising executive. Appealing black-and-white cartoons are sprinkled throughout and will draw young people to this series.

Vicki Reutter, Cazenovia High School, NY

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Reviewed with Diane Lindsey Reeves' Career Ideas for Kids who Like Money .

Gr. 6-10. Entries in the award-winning Career Ideas series are as hands-on and applicable as readers could want. Both volumes introduce the topic of career choices by making a clear analogy to an adventurous journey. Librarians should note the fill-in-the-blanks questionnaire and the interest inventory from which young people subsequently determine their most likely career possibilities. There are also profiles of professionals to give readers a multidimensional view of job benefits and drawbacks. Industrious kids will have fun exploring their options thanks to sharp, lively writing and appealing graphics, and students required to do career research will find useful information to supplement what's available in standard career reference resources. Roger Leslie
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Facts on File (February 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816043221
• ISBN-13: 978-0816043224
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,723,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

What do you want to be when you grow up? Answering that single question has taken me on an amazing journey as an author. Little did I know 10 years ago when I was writing the very first title, Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Science, that I would eventually fill over 50 books with ideas to help students of all ages find bright futures. And, believe it or not, there are still more books to come!

Two of my new series add some extra fun to the career exploration process. In the first, the Virtual Apprentice series, young readers find out what it's really like to be...a pop musician, a firefighter, an oceanographer and nine other exciting professions. Hot off the press in August of 2009 is the Way Out Work series, a full-color, high interest take on Goofy Jobs, Scary Jobs, Gutsy Jobs, and more.

All of my books are carefully designed to provide enough entertainment to keep kids interested and enough educational oomph for teachers to use them in their classrooms. The idea was to link learning with the real world in order to spark ideas, inspire dreams, and get kids thinking about all the things they could be.

You can find out more about my work at my website www.brightfuturespress.com.