My kids love reading and I try to read or find out about the book my kids are reading. As my daughter enters her tweens this is becoming a bit more challenging. She is branching out of series that I am familiar with such as Harry Potter, American Girl, Nancy Drew and such and into books of which I have never heard. It is summer, she is an extremely fast reader and I was running out of books I felt comfortable having her read without my pursuing them first and I had already hit up my mom friends for their recommendations.
Enter TeensReadToo.com. This site has hundreds of book reviews for current tween/teen books. The reviewer include teacher, parents, college students sprinkled with a few high school student reviewers. Each review has a biography listed so that you can get a feel of their background. There is a link within each review to that reviewers biography.
The review is quick and easy to read - following is a sample.
THE VAMPIRE'S PHOTOGRAPH by Kevin Emerson
Category: Paranormal
Age Recommendation: Grades 6+
Release Date: 8/1/08
Publisher: Scholastic
Reviewed by: Jaglvr
Rating: 4 Stars
Navigation is cumbersome as there is no search mechanism and the site reviews on alphabetical listings of books by title, author, rating.
I read through some of the book reviews of books that I had read. I got a good feel for the overall philosophy of the site and its contributors and would recommend it.
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