Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, (Paperback)

from whitreidtan

Talk about a walk down memory lane! Lizzie Skurnick is about my age and she is a long time bookworm. So of course our childhood reading was going to overlap to a large extent. Skurnick has written about the some of the most important books both in terms of forming who she is and in terms of her r...

from Florinda

It's been too long since I've started reading a book within a day or two of buying it, but I couldn't wait to dive into this one. However, let me get a quibble out of the way first: the subtitle of this book, "The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading," is using a very loose interpretation of "t...

from Florinda

It's been too long since I've started reading a book within a day or two of buying it, but I couldn't wait to dive into this one. However, let me get a quibble out of the way first: the subtitle of this book, "The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading," is using a very loose interpretation of "t...

from allawishus

I really enjoyed reading this; I was familiar with so many of the authors and titles discussed. It's definitely for people who grew up in the seventies/eighties, though. A lot of the titles discussed have lost their currency and definitely aren't as widely read among teens today. The author did a...

from amanderson

This is a book of essays about old YA lit from the 60's and 70's. It's kind of like a trip down memory lane with a girlfriend who loved much of the same books you did, dissecting their appeal, the underlying messages, and how freaky some of them were (Flowers in the Attic? what the heck?). Fun bo...