Summary
Test-drive your dream career!
Ever wonder what it’s like to be an airline pilot, or how to get a job as a pop musician? Daydream about fighting fires, exploring the ocean depths, or animating the next blockbuster cartoon? See a future catching criminals, mastering cyberspace, or lighting up the silver screen as a movie star?
Now, by creating their own virtual day on the job, readers in grades 4 through 9 can find out firsthand what it's like to have these exciting careers and many others. Combining behind-the-scenes information, a variety of fun activities, and interviews with working professionals, each book in this lively, colorful series can help young adults understand what it really takes to land their dream job. The books will encourage them to take a tour through a day in the life of each career, spend a day trying it on for size, then decide if the work they have always imagined is right for them.
Each accessible book includes:
- A behind-the-scenes look at the featured industry
- Profiles of working professionals that offer an inside peek at what they do
- "Reality Check" sidebars to help readers decide if this is the job for them
- "Find Out More" and "Check It Out" sidebars for further research
- "A Day in the Life" activity list that details a typical day on the job
- Q&As between real-life kids and pros
- A “Count Me In” journal feature for readers to track their activities.