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Great Brands - Freestyle

FreestyleGet reluctant readers excited about books with Freestyle, for grades 6-9+.  This new brand offers readers books filled with dazzling images to help them decode information.  Click for larger viewShort sentences without difficult vocabulary, clear sequencing of ideas, and information presented in bite-sized chunks that is reinforced with vocabulary support.

All titles include plenty of white space, sub-headings, and one key visual element on every page with smaller images in side-bars that have colored backgrounds to clearly separate from main body text.  Freestyle titles also use one single column for body text and have a glossary bar on every page.



Complete list of titles: 

A PAINFUL HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD: Dreary Dwellings and Frightful Families, Fiendish Crimes and Punishing Times, Freaky Fashion and Foul Food, Nasty Bugs and Ghastly Medicine, Scary Schools and Horrid Homework, Weary Work and Lousy Leisure

A PAINFUL HISTORY OF CRIME: Crime Through Time, Lawmakers and the Police, Prisons and Prisoners, Punishment and Pain

A PAINFUL HISTORY OF MEDICINE: Bedpans, Blood & Bandages, Pills, Powders & Potions, Pox, Pus & Plague, Scalpels, Stitches & Scars

A WEIRD HISTORY OF SCIENCE: Bizarre Biology, Crazy Chemistry, Foolish Physics, Outrageous Inventions

BODY TALK: Break It Down : The Digestive System, Control Freak : Hormones, the Brain, and the Nervous System, Defend Yourself : The Immune System, In Your Genes : Genetics and Reproduction, Move Your Body : Bones and Muscles, Pump It Up : Respiration and Circulation

DESTINATION DETECTIVES: Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, United Kingdom, Vietnam

GEOLOGY ROCKS!: Crystals, Fossils, Igneous Rock, Metamorphic Rock, Minerals, Sedimentary Rock, Soil

INCREDIBLE CREATURES: Incredible Amphibians, Incredible Arachnids, Incredible Birds, Incredible Fish, Incredible Insects, Incredible Mammals, Incredible Mollusks, Incredible Reptiles

MEAN MACHINES: Monster Trucks, Racing Cars, Spacecraft, Sports Cars

ON THE FRONT LINE: Fighting the Vietnam War, In the Trenches in World War I, Spying and the Cold War, Struggling for Civil Rights, Surviving the Holocaust, Under Fire in World War II

OUT THERE?: Mysteries of the Deep, Mysterious Disappearances, Mysterious Encounters, Mysterious Monsters, Mysterious Signs, Mysterious Urban Myths

STAR FILES: Andre Benjamin, Beyonce Knowles, Halle Berry, Jackie Chan, Johnny Depp, LeBron James, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Mike Myers, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Usher

TIME TRAVEL GUIDES: Ancient China, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aztec Empire, Inca Empire, Medieval Europe, The Islamic Empires, The Renaissance, West African Kingdoms

TURBULENT PLANET: Crumbling Earth : Erosion & Landslides, Forest Furnace : Wild Fires, Heat Hazard : Droughts, Shaky Ground : Earthquakes, White-Out : Blizzards, Wild Water : Floods