Shelf discovery, teen classics we never stopped reading, by Lizzie Skurnick ; with contributions by Meg Cabot ... [et al.]
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Shelf discovery, teen classics we never stopped reading, by Lizzie Skurnick ; with contributions by Meg Cabot ... [et al.]
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eng
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non fiction
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Shelf discovery
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by Lizzie Skurnick ; with contributions by Meg Cabot ... [et al.]
Sub title
teen classics we never stopped reading
Summary
An analysis of the literary genre that focused on adolescent girls and evolved between the 1960s and 1980s considers the achievements of such authors as Beverly Cleary, Lois Duncan, and Judy Blume, in a collection of essays in which contributing writers remember the ways in which favorite books changed their lives
Table Of Contents
Foreword : you are what you read / Laura Lippman -- Introduction : getting my period / Lizzie Skurnick -- Still checked out : YA heroines we'll never return -- She's at that age : girls on the verge -- Danger girls : I know what you did last summer (reading) -- Read 'em and weep : tearing up the pages -- You heard it here first : very afterschool specials -- Girls gone wild : runaways, left behinds, and ladies living off the fat of the land -- She comes by it supernaturally : girls who are gifted and talented -- Him she loves : romanced, rejected, affianced, dejected -- Old-fashioned girls : they wear bonnets, don't they? -- Panty lines : I can't believe they let us read this
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