Research Catalog

Title

Urban grit : a guide to street lit / Megan Honig.

Author

Honig, Megan.

Publication

Santa Barbara, California : Libraries Unlimited, [2011], ©2011.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xxiv, 251 pages; 27 cm.

Summary

This guide to more than 44 street-lit titles aids readers' advisors and other librarians to better understand the genre and collect and recommend titles ranging from romance and coming-of-age stories to action stories and erotica.

Series Statement

Genreflecting advisory series

Uniform Title

Genreflecting advisory series

Subject

• Urban fiction, American > Bibliography
• Urban fiction, American > Stories, plots, etc
• Readers' advisory services > United States
• Fiction in libraries

Genre/Form

• Bibliographies
• Stories, plots, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Players & hustlers -- Coming-of-age -- Drama -- Love stories -- Erotica -- Thrillers -- Hard times -- Prison -- Family -- Friendship -- Poetry, memoir & nonfiction -- Appendix A. Core collection for adults -- Appendix B. Core collection for young adults (public library) -- Appendix C. Core collection for young adults (school library) -- Appendix D. Street lit publishers and imprints.

ISBN

9781591588573 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2010041099

OCLC

• 548555604
• SCSB-10835533

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library