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

by Michael CART
136p. appendix. index. ALA. 2013. pap. $50. ISBN 978-0-8389-1158-7. LC 2012027260.
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Cart uses his years of experience, reviews from Booklist, VOYA, and School Library Journal, plus criteria used for the Alex Awards to choose the adult books, both fiction and nonfiction, he considers to be of interest to young adults. Chosen titles are annotated and presented in alphabetical order with category symbols such as GF for general fiction. Also included is an index of authors and titles, and appendixes of titles "Not to be missed" and "Something Entirely Different," which would be more valuable if the titles were all different from those included in the annotated lists. While the book is of possible use to new librarians with little collection-development experience and/or a library with a limited YA collection, most experienced librarians will see no need for such a volume, relying instead on review journals.—Suanne B. Roush, Osceola High School, Seminole, FL
Reviewed by Suanne B. Roush , Oct 01, 2013

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