Reviews and Book Info for Teens and Teachers
ALA Best Books     http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bestbooksyoung.cfm
Check the nominations for the current year's best YA books.  Past years' finalists are available.

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers    http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/quickpicks/quickpicksreluctant.cfm
Check the nominations for the current year's best YA high interest books.  Past years' finalists are available.

Alan Online   http://www.alan-ya.org/
The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents.  For $20 a year you can become a member.

Amazon    http://www.amazon.com/

Baker & Taylor  http://www.btol.com/

Barnes & Noble  http://www.barnesandnoble.com

Book Divas/Harper Collins First Look    http://www.harperteen.com/firstlook/
Teens can sign up to review books and read message boards

Booklist   http://www.booklistonline.com/
$79.95 per year for print.  $295 for online.  A variety of subscription choices are available.  Reviews for all ages.

Bookloons for Teens    http://www.bookloons.com/HandHTML/teens.html

Book Spot   http://www.bookspot.com/
Wide variety of links and information for all ages, including YA’s.

Bookwire   http://www.bookwire.com/

Chicago Public Library http://www.chipublib.org/forteens/index.php
Links and info for teens.

Children’s Literature Association  http://www.childlitassn.org/links.html
Links to all kinds of resources, nicely organized.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database   http://www.childrenslit.com/
Subscription service for reviews

Common Sense Media  http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/?ref=Homepage-TopNav
 Reviews books and gives ratings for sexual content, violence, language, social behavior, commercialism and drugs and alcohol.  Straight forward, nonbiased

Farrar Straus Giroux Newsletters    http://us.macmillan.com/newslettersandalerts.aspx?page=N
This leads to the master list of newsletters from all of Macmillan's imprints.

Flamingnet    http://www.flamingnet.com/
Reviews by teens.  They are usually looking for teens who want to review for them.

Follett Titlewave  http://www.flr.follett.com/
Registration is free and then you can search by title and read a variety of reviews about the book.  You can also generate lists by genre or reading level.

Frederick Muller  http://www.mullersreviews.com/
Mostly middle school since Frederick is a middle school library media specialist. He reads every fiction book before he puts it on the shelf and has written reviews of all types of books.

Genrefluent    http://www.genrefluent.com/
The world of genre fiction.  Includes sections on teen reviews as well as titles in different genres.

Good Reads.com    http://www.goodreads.com/
Create a free account, review books you've  read and read other readers' reviews
Kliatt    http://hometown.aol.com/kliatt/
$39 a year.  The reviews are included on Find Articles for free.  You can search or just browse the most recent reviews. http://www.findarticles.com

Hachette Book Group Teen Reads (Little Brown & Co.)    http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/teenreads/index.html

Harper Collins First Look for Teens http://www.harperteen.com/firstlook/
Teens can sign up by answering a few questions and then can receive free copies of new books to review for the website.

Harper Teen Newsletters http://www.harperteen.com/newsletters.asp

Horn Book   http://www.hbook.com/
$61.00 per year.  New subscriptions are less for the first year.

Houghton Mifflin Reading Groups
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/youngadult.shtml

Hyperion Books for Teens
http://www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com/teens/index.asp
Not as much for teens as other sites, but lots for teachers.  One nice thing they have are audio chapters of a vareity of books.

Internet Public Library Teen Read    http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/
A variety of links of interest.  Graphic novel guide, poetry wiki, reading lists, zines, etc.

KidsReads    http://www.kidsreads.com/
For upper elementary and middle school.  Reviews are written by a staff of adults.

Kirkus Reviews http://www.kirkusreviews.com/kirkusreviews/magazine/childrens.jsp

Library Media Connection  http://www.linworth.com/lmc/
$69.00 per year.  Watch for special reduced rates for new subscribers.  K-12 articles and book reviews.

Little, Brown & Co.Teen Reads
http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/teens_index.aspx

Mackin   http://mackin.com/

Midwest Book Review http://www.midwestbookreview.com/

Mostly Fiction  http://mostlyfiction.com/index.html
This is not aimed at teens, but at adults.

Overbooked   http://www.overbooked.org/

Penguin Teen
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/youngreaders/teens.html

Penguin Newsletters  http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/newsletters/index.html

Powell's Books        http://www.powells.com/

Publisher’s Weekly    https://www.publishersweekly.com/subscribe.asp?screen=pi10&nid=2788

Push from Scholastic http://www.thisispush.com/read/index.htm

Random House Teens http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/
Several different newsletters, free stuff and book info

Reader's Robot        http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/rr.html
Canadian site

Reading Rants        http://readingrants.org/
Reviews from Jennifer Hubert, organized by a vareity of contemporary trends and genres.

Review and React        http://www.reviewandreact.com/
Online place for adults and/or teens to review and or comment on books.

Richie's Picks        http://www.richiespicks.com/

School Library Journal http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/
$129.99 per year.  Articles and reviews for k-12.

Simon & Schuster/ Simon Pulse Newsletter
http://www.simonsays.com/extras/pdfs/SimonPulseMag.pdf

Additional Simon & Schuster books for teens
http://www.simonsays.com/content/index.cfm?sid=802

Spaghetti Book Club    http://www.spaghettibookclub.org/
Reviews by kids for kids.  All age levels.

Teacher Librarian http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/subscribe_now/sub_now.shtml
$54.00 per year. Articles and book reviews for middle and high school.

Teen Ink        http://www.teenink.com/
All types of writing by teens.  Sponsored by the Young Author’s Foundation.

Teen Reads   http://www.teenreads.com/
Author interviews and information, book club guides, polls, links to other book sites and of course, reviews of lots of books.

VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) http://www.voya.com/
$44.95 per year, bimonthly publication.  Articles and book reviews.

YA Books Central  http://www.yabookscentral.com/
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Created and Copyrighted Winter 2007-08 by Patti Tjomsland
updated Fall 08
Part of a BER seminar