Synopses & Reviews
Remember that book you read at that time in your life when everything seemed to be going crazy — the one book that brought the world into focus and helped soothe your raging teenage angst?
Review
"[These essays] are likely to provide any woman who grew up loving books with a satisfying voyage to the past, as well as a list of books to reread." Library Journal
Review
"Shelf Discovery is a dizzyingly crowded, joyful hodgepodge of book reports. This is potent nostalgia for girlhoods past; the strawberry scent of Bonne Bell Lip Smackers practically wafts off the pages." Time Magazine
Review
"Shelf Discovery repaints the stories of our childhood much they way our English teachers did their versions of the classics....Skurnick treats the dime store paperbacks with reverence, and in her re-readings, we find messages of feminism, empowerment and sometimes just a simple story to grow older with." Babble
Review
"Reading is often viewed as a solitary act. Shelf Discovery is a reminder that reading connects us to other readers and writers, providing a common frame of reference through which we can share our own lives." TeenReads
Synopsis
From Beverly Cleary's novels to Judy Blume's whole oeuvre, Shelf Discovery looks at the importance and, for many adolescent girls, life-changing nature of young adult literature.
About the Author
Lizzie Skurnick is the columnist for Jezebel.com's "Fine Lines" and the author of ten teen books in the Sweet Valley High, Love Stories, and Alias series. She has written on books and culture extensively for the New York Times Book Review, Times Sunday Styles, the LA Times, NPR.org, The Washington Post, and many other publications. Her blog, Old Hag, was a Forbes Best of the Web pick. Look for Shelf Discovery on Facebook.