This updated second edition of the Ultimate Teen Book Guide follows the success of the first Ultimate Teen Book Guide. The Ultimate Book Guides are a well-established brand, which includes the Ultimate First Book Guide and the Ultimate Book Guide. Contributions from the hottest names in books, including Anthony Horowitz, Meg Cabot, Philip Pullman and Jonathan Coe. This is the only book guide written specifically for teens, with an opinionated and witty tone. Reviews from teen readers, along with 'Top Ten' polls showing what teens are really reading. A dedicated website www.ultimatebookguide.com allows readers to interact with the editors and each other. It includes a quiz and a reader's poll, keeping the books right up to date.
Daniel is a freelance writer, translator and editor, Leonie is a librarian in a boys' school and Susan co-owns a company that carries out freelance work for children's publishers. All three are extremely well-connected in the children's book world!
Gr 7 Up-This attractive volume includes reviews of more than 700 fiction titles, nonfiction, classics, and graphic novels that will be of interest to young adults. The reviewers/contributors are popular authors, librarians, and teens themselves. Brief entries of one half to one page per title are easy to read with black-and-white images of book covers, suggested ages, and additional recommendations included. The lively reviews are sorted alphabetically by title, indexed by author, and cross-referenced throughout the volume. Teen readers poll results and short articles on specific genres are interspersed among the entries, and all of the contributors are profiled at the back of the book. This book is easier to access than Nancy Pearl's Book Crush (Sasquatch, 2007). It's an excellent source for a variety of book reviews spanning time and genre. Useful for students, librarians, and teachers.-Corinda J. Humphrey, Los Angeles Public Library Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
Teens on the lookout for their next book can turn to The Ultimate Teen Book Guide, ed. by Daniel Hahn and Leonie Flynn, which lists more than 700 books recommended by teens, librarians, editors, teachers and authors (Meg Cabot, Eoin Colfer, E. Lockhart, Jerry Spinelli among many more). Top 10 lists, opinion polls and suggestions based on books teens might have already enjoyed, round out this resource. (Walker, $15.95 432p ages 12-up ISBN 9780-8027-9731-5; Jan.) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
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