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Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick7/7/2023 ![]() Well, at least this happened to me when I loaned my copy of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by uber-goddess Judy Blume to all my friends in Miss Wilson’s fifth grade class. These are the books we loaned to our friends only to get them back with tattered covers and dog-eared pages. These are the books that kept us up long after our bed time or the books we hid behind our text books during social studies. No, this book covers the books that weren’t on any teacher-approved reading list. Shelf Discovery does not cover the books we had to read for school, books by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eyre and Austen. She also brings along writers like Meg Cabot, Jennifer Weiner and Cecily von Ziegesar for the ride down memory lane. ![]() Not only is she a reader but she’s also a writer of some of the Sweet Valley High books. Skurnick is no stranger to young adult books. ![]() Now many of these (somewhat altered) essays are in book form in Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading. ![]() ![]() In her “Fine Lines” column on the website Jezebel, Lizzie Skurnick re-read many of the novels she loved as a young girl, looking at them through the eyes of an adult. “We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust” ![]()
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