Friday, August 29, 2014

Reading Young Adult Book Reviews

By Marlene Blevins


Your children love to read but you don't quite know where to look for information about or summaries of teen reading materials. The best place to look is at young adult book reviews either online or in publications. This will help you locate exactly the reading materials you are looking for just for that special young person in your life.

These reviews will help in your decision of whether the material is something your teen would like or a work that you would select for him. They are an easy method to help narrow down choices and explore interesting and new materials by both well-known and new writers.

This saves you both time and money in selecting materials for teens in your household. The last thing you want to do is shell out ten to fifteen dollars for a paperback and then have it lie around unopened until someone finally stores it unread on a shelf.

No one knows your teen like you do and the type of reading that he or she is interested is what you will be seeking. Reading the newspaper, especially the Sunday paper, and searching through teen and literary magazines will help you find the stories and manuals that are required. Their interests could lie in romance, science fiction, fantasy, drama, futuristic or even mystery literature or they could be into astronomy or history. Online sources are unlimited as to the amount of information they may have on specific works so they may be the best places to search.

A book review will begin with some type of introduction. It may discuss the author and his background as well as why the work was written. There may be lists of works by the same writer. The genre should also be revealed at this point as well as the style of writing used. The work may be compared to that of other writers. Some of this information could also appear at the end of the article as well.

A short story summary will be given. It will describe the author's style and knowledge of included materials. It will give readers a framework of the entire work so individuals can decide if this is something they would like to read. This summary, however, usually does not include the ending as it would spoil it for the reader. Many a time, an individual will stop reading the article right there if it is not a subject he is interested in. He probably won't even read the remainder of the account.

But those who are intrigued or know that it is something that their teen will enjoy will continue reading the article to help make a final decision as to whether to purchase it or not. The language and violence in the work may be thoroughly evaluated. If a parent is undecided, she may jot down or make an article copy for future use.

Seeking these articles in periodicals, newspapers and online will give readers a chance to expand their teen's horizons by giving them introductions to both well-known and new authors. They serve as a guide to assist in the selection process of reading materials for young people. Finding an author that your child enjoys will give you many future sources for other stories as well as other literary works.




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