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Career Ideas For Kids Who Like Adventure is one of the Nancy Bond and Diane Lindsey Reeves career-exploration books for middle-grade readers, with the conceit that 12 different adventure-themed careers (from marine biologist to backcountry ranger to expedition photographer) get short profiles, interviews with working professionals, and suggestions for how a 10 to 14-year-old can begin exploring the field. The book is practical rather than aspirational and respects its audience.
Bond's strength here is the careful research and the interview material. The working-professional Q&A sections are unusually substantive for a kids' career book; the interviewees treat the readers as future colleagues rather than as audience. Fans of the Eyewitness Books reference series or of Sarah Albee's middle-grade nonfiction will recognize the careful information-design tradition.
The book is shorter than the cover's topic range suggests.
Three stars. A useful classroom-and-library resource. Recommended for middle-grade readers and for educators. The Career Ideas For Kids Who Like Adventure Nancy Bond book is part of a long series; readers and educators interested in other interest areas can find the matching volumes.
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