Book Adventure is password-protected and complies with the guidelines established by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and the Children's Advisory Review Unit (CARU) of the Better Business Bureau. You can, therefore, rest assured that all private information will remain so, and that prizes will not be sent to your children without parental permission.

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The breadth and depth of the list supports most integrated thematic units, paired reading activities, and whole language efforts. You should also find that it complements your child's reading program at school whether his school uses basal readers, a literature-based curriculum, or a combination of both methods.

Titles have been recommended by a variety of sources. Many of the authors have won prestigious awards - such as the Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, or Young Reader's Choice. Others have been selected in statewide surveys of popular books or have been specifically requested by teachers. The list includes not only the classic works of children's literature, but also many books that reflect diverse cultures and perspectives.

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Questions have been carefully composed to reflect each book's vocabulary, to make sure the child has read the entire book, and to ensure that children have not just viewed a video version of the book.

Registered Readers will soon understand that if they spend the time needed to read a book closely, they will score well and be rewarded. As soon as a child completes a Book Adventure quiz, the number of correctly answered questions and point total are immediately displayed. This constant feedback encourages them to read the book again, if necessary, to obtain a higher score.

Registered Children can take quizzes on each book up to two times. Only the highest score of the two, however, is recorded. Once they're done, they can go to the Prizes Library to pick something out, retake the quiz, or take a quiz on a new book.

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As you will see, Sponsors have donated some of our prizes, and these are the prizes that require the approval of a supervisor. However, we also have many prizes that do not require points and can be printed out immediately and do not require approval (see Cool Stuff). All prizes that require points can only be obtained after the child has registered on the site.

In addition to our donated prizes, we have created a featured that allows parents to become more involved and create incentives that are personal to the child, and complement our current prize offerings. This feature is known as the Personal Incentive Plan (PIP) feature and is accessible in the Parent's Place homepage beneath the on-line resources, once you are registered and logged into your account.

Through using the PIP feature, you decide and provide the incentive, set the required points necessary to receive the incentive and create the online certificate. Once you save your incentives, you child can view them in the Prize Library, along with the other prizes available to them. The sky is the limit as far as the prize offerings that you can create! Some ideas for incentives are:

• Extra playtime
• A movie or video game rental
• $10 to spend at their favorite store
• An educational toy

Once your child earns enough points to request one of your offerings, they would request the prize the same way that they would request any of our other prizes. You will have then have to approve the request, and your child has to print the reward certificate.

You have chosen a user name that is already being used by another member of Book Adventure. To create a user name try combining names with numbers that are significant to you. A birth year, sports number or part of a phone number are good. For example: Elvis1990 or Elvis89. You can also try different combinations of your name. For example: PresleyElvis, ElvisP, PresleyE or PresleyEA. Be as creative as you can.

Each child will create a unique User Name for himself or herself. He or she will complete the form by entering in his or her first name, last name initial, a password (entered twice for verification), a password hint to help him or her remember forgotten passwords, and your e-mail address (entered twice for verification). The email address is what links your child’s account to your parent account. The child's birthday, city, state, and gender are optional information, which a child may or may not provide as he/she so chooses.

Once a child is registered, they can find books, create faces, take quizzes, and print out Cool Stuff whether their parent is registered or not, but they cannot earn or request the prizes that require approval until a parent/guardian has registered.

Once you have approved a prize (or prizes) there are 2 ways a prize can be redeemed. First, your child will be given the ability to print out a coupon or order form right from their account. Second, for on-line prizes, follow the directions on the site to download and print the actual prize.

To register, you must have your browser's configuration set to allow cookies. Although the browser will automatically create Session cookies when you log onto the site, Book Adventure does not use them for any purpose other than to associate user data with the correct user. No information other than the information entered by you during the registration process, your quiz scores, custom made faces, and prize requests is maintained by Book Adventure.

1. Select "Tools" from the menu bar, then select "Internet Options", a new screen will appear.
2. Select the tab titled "Security", change the setting bar to "Medium".
3. Select the tab titled "Content", make sure the "Content Adviser" is disabled.

To change this on Netscape/Mozilla, perform the following steps:

1. Select "Edit" from the menu bar, then select "Preferences", a new screen will appear.
2. Double click on the menu item titled "Privacy and Security", some new options will appear below it.
3. Select the menu item titled "Cookies", and make sure the option "Enable all cookies" is checked.

You may also want to try to delete the cookies currently stored in your computer. Deleting Cookies and Temporary Internet Files

1. From the Book Adventure home page click on Tools in the Browser menu bar.
2. Select Internet options.
3. Select the tab labeled General.
4. Click on Delete Cookies. Click OK in the pop up box.
5. Once it has finished deleting the cookies, click on Delete Files to the right of the Delete Cookies button.
6. On the pop up box, make sure the delete offline files box is NOT selected. Click OK. After the deleting has finished, click OK to close the Internet Options box.