Any author who won the affections of Lizzie Skurnick in her girlhood should count her- or himself lucky. Back then, Skurnick wept over books, pressed them on friends and mined them for educational material cultural, social and sexual. Some tempting literary morsels drove her to actual theft. Now in Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading (Avon; 424 pages), Skurnick, 35, revisits her favorite young-adult novels to explore why they left such an impression on her and other women of her generation.
Shelf Discovery is a dizzyingly crowded, joyful hodgepodge of book reports, 65 of them written by...
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