Week Seven: Not Just for Teens III

In this concluding chapter in my YA-focused trilogy of posts, here's a follow-up on the two blogs I started following for last week's assignment:

Stacked

Stacked is written by two public librarians, Kimberly Francisco and Kelly Jensen. Book reviews, reading lists, and links of note are some of their recurring features, with an occasional academic/professional-type article thrown in. I would have to say that their audience may more likely be adults who read teen novels or other librarians, simply because of the high-level of some of their articles. Also, their format, while crisp and pleasing, is more professional than other glitzy teen-centric sites I've seen (like last week's LB Teen).

Is this a successful blog? It's hard to tell, but there are never too many comments on their posts (excepting Kelly Jensen's Female Sexuality in YA Fiction: Exploring the Range of Experiences, which has amassed a whopping 24 comments so far). I'm certainly enjoying it, though, and I hope they keep it up.

Teen Reads

A flashier site than Stacked, Teen Reads' content is provided by Bookreporter writers and it seems geared towards actual teenage readers. The polls are fun and quirky. They've got a "He Said/She Said" feature and another for "Adult books you want to read." That all suggests a younger audience.

Teen Reads is fairly successful in the getting-a-large-audience category: their main banner touts their 7,500 Facebook fans (not to mention their Twitter and YouTube followers). As an offshoot of Bookreporter, Teen Reads also benefits from the larger site funnelling in readers.