"Taking on more responsibilities at home or moving into your own place can be both thrilling and intimidating. You may be handling grocery shopping, cooking, laundry, and house cleaning by yourself for the first time. Mastering a few basic skills will make these tasks easy and manageable. Then you'll have time to focus on something more fun--decorating your new place and making it your home. Combining practical content with visual appeal, the Life Skills Handbooks read more like magazines than books. Realistic scenarios help students grasp the relevance of the information in these books, and tables, graphs, and charts add to students' understanding. Essential vocabulary is featured to help students build real-world literacy."