(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. This biography tells about the life and amazing publishing success of Stephenie Meyer. That the love story between human Bella and vampire Edward came to Meyer in a dream will not be new information to her die-hard fans, and the text may be too bland for casual readers. Some photographs and pull-quotes help break up the pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. These biographies tell about the lives and works of popular authors. The main texts are generally bland; however, the appended short interviews or collections of quotes do shed some light on the minds of those who make a living at their craft and will perhaps inspire would-be teen writers. Some photographs and pull-quotes help break up the pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Amy Tan, Lois Duncan, Isaac Asimov, and Vivian Vande Velde.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. These biographies tell about the lives and works of popular authors. The main texts are generally bland; however, the appended short interviews or collections of quotes do shed some light on the minds of those who make a living at their craft and will perhaps inspire would-be teen writers. Some photographs and pull-quotes help break up the pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Amy Tan, Lois Duncan, Isaac Asimov, and Vivian Vande Velde.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. These biographies tell about the lives and works of popular authors. The main texts are generally bland; however, the appended short interviews or collections of quotes do shed some light on the minds of those who make a living at their craft and will perhaps inspire would-be teen writers. Some photographs and pull-quotes help break up the pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Amy Tan, Lois Duncan, Isaac Asimov, and Vivian Vande Velde.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. These biographies tell about the lives and works of popular authors. The main texts are generally bland; however, the appended short interviews or collections of quotes do shed some light on the minds of those who make a living at their craft and will perhaps inspire would-be teen writers. Some photographs and pull-quotes help break up the pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Amy Tan, Lois Duncan, Isaac Asimov, and Vivian Vande Velde.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. Blume's pioneering spirit and unwillingness to bow to censorship stand out in this lightweight chronicle of her life and writing. The main text is interspersed with many quotes from previous interviews, books, and websites. A few photographs of Blume and some other stock photos are included. The cartoonish cover is not likely to attract the series' target teen audience. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Lisa Catherine Findlay

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. These biographies tell about the lives and works of popular authors. Most of the texts are bland and sometimes repetitive, but fans are occasionally rewarded with interesting tidbits (for example, in I Am the Cheese, Amy Hertz's phone number was actually the phone number of author Cormier). Some photographs and pull-quotes help break up the pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Lois Lowry, Robert Cormier, Richard Peck, S. E. Hinton, and Gary Paulsen.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. These biographies tell about the lives and works of popular authors. Most of the texts are bland and sometimes repetitive, but fans are occasionally rewarded with interesting tidbits (for example, in I Am the Cheese, Amy Hertz's phone number was actually the phone number of author Cormier). Some photographs and pull-quotes help break up the pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Lois Lowry, Robert Cormier, Richard Peck, S. E. Hinton, and Gary Paulsen.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. These biographies tell about the lives and works of popular authors. Most of the texts are bland and sometimes repetitive, but fans are occasionally rewarded with interesting tidbits (for example, in I Am the Cheese, Amy Hertz's phone number was actually the phone number of author Cormier). Some photographs and pull-quotes help break up the pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Lois Lowry, Robert Cormier, Richard Peck, S. E. Hinton, and Gary Paulsen.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. These biographies tell about the lives and works of popular authors. Most of the texts are bland and sometimes repetitive, but fans are occasionally rewarded with interesting tidbits (for example, in I Am the Cheese, Amy Hertz's phone number was actually the phone number of author Cormier). Some photographs and pull-quotes help break up the pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Lois Lowry, Robert Cormier, Richard Peck, S. E. Hinton, and Gary Paulsen.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. These biographies tell about the lives and works of popular authors. Most of the texts are bland and sometimes repetitive, but fans are occasionally rewarded with interesting tidbits (for example, in I Am the Cheese, Amy Hertz's phone number was actually the phone number of author Cormier). Some photographs and pull-quotes help break up the pages. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Lois Lowry, Robert Cormier, Richard Peck, S. E. Hinton, and Gary Paulsen.

Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. This lightweight biography begins with Spinelli's childhood before presenting his young adulthood as a struggling unpublished writer and documenting his later success. Glowing synopses of Spinelli's books are accompanied by excerpted reviews. The volume concludes with an interview that includes a brief description of his current writing process. A few fairly bland photographs illustrate the text. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. Lightweight biographies detail their subjects' lives, heavily focusing on anecdotes that reflect on and demonstrate their development as authors. The overwhelmingly upbeat texts are meatier when exploring the controversies of the authors' works, most apparent in Pullman; Card and Danziger are more concerned with their subjects' lives. Color photos illustrate each volume. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Paula Danziger, Philip Pullman, and Orson Scott Card.

Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. Lightweight biographies detail their subjects' lives, heavily focusing on anecdotes that reflect on and demonstrate their development as authors. The overwhelmingly upbeat texts are meatier when exploring the controversies of the authors' works, most apparent in Pullman; Card and Danziger are more concerned with their subjects' lives. Color photos illustrate each volume. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Paula Danziger, Philip Pullman, and Orson Scott Card.

Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. Lightweight biographies detail their subjects' lives, heavily focusing on anecdotes that reflect on and demonstrate their development as authors. The overwhelmingly upbeat texts are meatier when exploring the controversies of the authors' works, most apparent in Pullman; Card and Danziger are more concerned with their subjects' lives. Color photos illustrate each volume. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Paula Danziger, Philip Pullman, and Orson Scott Card.

Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. Each of these biographies opens with a childhood anecdote before focusing on the subject's life and writings. Captioned photographs and sidebars (printed in hard-to-read type) add information. Tolkien covers the Middle-earth phenomenon as well as the author and his work. Nixon is disturbingly referred to in both past and present tenses. Bradbury and Nixon include interviews. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Ray Bradbury, Joan Lowery Nixon, and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. Each of these biographies opens with a childhood anecdote before focusing on the subject's life and writings. Captioned photographs and sidebars (printed in hard-to-read type) add information. Tolkien covers the Middle-earth phenomenon as well as the author and his work. Nixon is disturbingly referred to in both past and present tenses. Bradbury and Nixon include interviews. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Ray Bradbury, Joan Lowery Nixon, and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. Each of these biographies opens with a childhood anecdote before focusing on the subject's life and writings. Captioned photographs and sidebars (printed in hard-to-read type) add information. Tolkien covers the Middle-earth phenomenon as well as the author and his work. Nixon is disturbingly referred to in both past and present tenses. Bradbury and Nixon include interviews. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Ray Bradbury, Joan Lowery Nixon, and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin