Ebook {Epub PDF} Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick

 · Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick, Laura Lippman, Jennifer Weiner, Cecily Von Ziegesar, Meg Cabot. 0 Ratings 0 Want to read; 0 Currently reading; 0 Have readAuthor: Lizzie Skurnick. Shelf Discovery is a great book for anyone who grew up reading YA in the s and 80s. Lizzie Skurnick writes the Fine Lines column for bltadwin.ru, and this book is a collection of her posts on the YA books that she read as a teen. One thing to know about this book is that it's not about contemporary YA, although current readers might enjoy this look down memory lane/5(20). Click to read more about Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers All about Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick%(26).

One of the summer's most-anticipated books, Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick, came out today! Publisher's Weekly calls it "frequently hilarious" and, though my copy hasn't arrived yet (I loved its inspiration, though: Lizzie's Fine Lines column on Jezebel), I call it the best idea for a book I've ever heard: who doesn't find themselves paging. The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading. Lizzie Skurnick. $; $; This was the era, notes the bibliomaniacal Skurnick in her brief introduction, when books for young girls moved from being "wholesome and entertaining" (e.g., The Secret Garden and the Nancy Drew series) to dealing with real-life, painful issues affecting adolescence. A book deal followed, and in Skurnick published an expanded compendium of the columns in "Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading.".

Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick Although Shelf Discovery is tagged "The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading," the books featured are about half middle-grade and half young adult (middle grade being for younger kids, pre-teens and tweens, in case you're not familiar with the term), although a handful of books for adults are included too. Leave it to Lizzie Skurnick, whose Fine Lines columns for bltadwin.ru are now collected in a book, Shelf Discovery: Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, to respond at length to my questions. Skurnick is particularly effective at spotlighting an undervalued classic (e.g., Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase) and offers titles featuring troubled boys as well. Her suggestions will prove superhelpful (not to mention wildly entertaining) for educators, librarians and parents.