Teenreads.com

I came across two websites yesterday while looking for the next post. This one that I am going to write about looks on the outside to be very teeny. it has color, attitude, and energy, all things a teenager has. The other one, http://www.teensadvisor.com/teen-books/teen-reads.html, looks very bland, but only has a minor area about books. To really get the teens to see the books that other teens are reading it should have that web page look like it was made for a teenager.

Teen Reads contains a lot of energy. It has contests and polls for kids to enter to win even more books. I thought that was really great.

Their recent newsletter for April has a small book review for the teens to read to see if it is either a book they would like to read or recommend to other friends. It also promotes National Library Week, which I heard about on National Public Radio for the first time a couple weeks ago. They have about one to two newsletters out a month, which is pretty good. It gives young adults a chance to read the books and not have their emails crowded with notifications.

Overall I think they do a wonderful job trying to get young adults attention to reading and showing them what books are being read by those their age and keeping up with teen technology.