This publication is designed to provide guidance to secondary teachers, curriculum developers, and geographic educators responsible for selecting appropriate text materials in geography and the social sciences. The most commonly used geography textbooks for grades 7 through 12 are reviewed. The reviews identify major components of sound geography texts which include: (1) scope; (2) sequencing of skills and activities; (3) ancillary features; (4) readability levels; (5) content properties; (6) instructional properties; and (7) physical properties. A table of bibliographic data is included, as is an appendix evaluating the instructional, physical, and content properties of the reviewed textbooks. (DB)