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Author:

Skurnick, Lizzie.

Title:

Shelf discovery : teen classics we never stopped reading / by Lizzie Skurnick ; with contributions by Meg Cabot ... [et al.].

Edition:

1st Avon pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Avon,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xx, 424 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Young adult fiction, American--History and criticism.
Teenage girls--Books and reading--United States.
Heroines in literature.
Girls in literature.
Characters and characteristics in literature.

Other Authors:

Cabot, Meg.

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.

ISBN:

0061756350 (acid-free paper)
9780061756351 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)262886472

LCCN:

2009002486

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YBPC572 -- Central City Public Library (Central City)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

HNPC845 -- Hawarden Public Library (Hawarden)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)