Cart's Top 200 Adult Books for Young Adults: Two Decades in Review

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Paperback
2012
$60.97
Author of the bestseller Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism, Cart applies his considerable expertise as columnist and critic for Booklist to identifying 200 exceptional adult books that will satisfy a variety of young adults' recreational reading tastes. Based on the notoriously choosy reading interests of today's older young adults, this useful book
- Features only the best of the best-no cheesy star bios or chick lit lite here
- Covers a wide range of genres, from graphic novels and real-life adventures to romance and speculative fiction
- Includes numerous read-alikes and related-titles lists, making it a great tool for both collection development and readers' advisory
- Makes finding a great book easy, with multiple indexes and thorough annotation
Cart's roundup of high-quality titles, put together with insight and obvious affection, spotlights hundreds of great books for a hard-to-satisfy audience.

Synopsis

Author of the bestseller Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism, Cart applies his considerable expertise as columnist and critic for Booklist to identifying 200 exceptional adult books that will satisfy a variety of young adults' recreational reading tastes. Based on the notoriously choosy reading interests of today's older young adults, this useful book

Features only the best of the best-no cheesy star bios or chick lit lite here
Covers a wide range of genres, from graphic novels and real-life adventures to romance and speculative fiction
Includes numerous read-alikes and related-titles lists, making it a great tool for both collection development and readers' advisory
Makes finding a great book easy, with multiple indexes and thorough annotation

Cart's roundup of high-quality titles, put together with insight and obvious affection, spotlights hundreds of great books for a hard-to-satisfy audience.

$60.97

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 15 Nov 2012
ISBN 10: 0838911587
ISBN 13: 9780838911587

Author Bio

Michael Cart is a nationally known expert in young adult literature, which he taught at UCLA before his recent relocation to the Midwest. A columnist and reviewer for ALA's Booklist magazine, he is also the author or editor of 20 books and countless articles that have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Parents Magazine, American Libraries, School Library Journal, and elsewhere. The former president of both YALSA and ALAN, he is the recipient of the 2000 Grolier Award and the first recipient - in 2008 - of the YALSA/Greenwood Publishing Group Service to Young Adults Award. He appointed and chaired the Task Force that created the Michael L. Printz Award and subsequently chaired the 2006 Printz Committee.