Urban Grit: A Guide to Street Lit (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781591588573)

Offering more than 400 street-lit titles, this guide helps 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.

Street lit is also known to its enthusiastic readers as "urban fiction," "ghetto lit," "hip-hop lit," and "gangsta lit." No matter what it's called, it remains one of the most significant and increasingly popular forms of modern literature.

This text provides a much-needed resource guide to this vibrant genre. In this title, more than 400 entries appear in eleven chapters, each focusing on a different subgenre of street lit. The author has organized titles by popular subgenres and themes, such as prison life and urban erotica, to help librarians more easily identify read-alikes. Urban Grit: A Guide to Street Lit also contains practical tips on integrating these books into an existing collection or library program and meeting challenges that may arise in the process.

Author: Megan Honig
ISBN-10: 159158857X
ISBN-13: 9781591588573
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2010
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.67lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2011 pg. 29
Library Journal 04/15/2011 pg. 102
School Library Journal 05/01/2011 pg. 148