Friday, August 29, 2014

Reading Young Adult Book Reviews For Your Teen

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.

If you are seeking reading materials, reviews help you decide if the novel featured is something you would choose for your child to read. They are a great way to narrow down your choices and to explore new and interesting works by both established and new authors.

It will save time and dollars when choosing these for the teens in your class or household. You do not want to spend money for the work and then have the hardcover or paperback just lay there unopened and unread until it is stored on a shelf somewhere.

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 review will begin with an introduction. It may talk a little bit about the author and why the work was written. It may give lists of other works by the same author. The genre may be discussed as well as the type of writing it is composed of. Comparisons may be done against writings by other well-known authors. This information may also be given at the end of the article instead.

In the article body, a story or work summary will be laid out. It will give the reader the story or information basics as well as describe the writer's style and his knowledge of the material. Of course, the ending of the work is not given as this would defeat the purpose of buying the manual or story. This framework will assist a parent in making a decision as to whether or not to purchase it. If is is apparently not something a teen would be interested in, the reader may stop reading the article immediately.

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.

Looking for these works in magazines, newspapers, and online will help readers assist teens in expanding their horizons by introducing them to newer, more current novels and nonfiction as well as classical and more well known writers. They will provide a guide for purchasing future books by the very same author if the teen reading it really enjoys the story and the writing style.




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