Teen Vogue

Astley, Amy. Teen Vogue. Conde Nast Publications, 2003-2010. ASIN: B000K0YFW4.

Plot
Teen Vogue is published ten times a year. Its purpose is to bring a version of Vogue to a younger generation. It reviews up and new coming fashions as well as reviews of celebrities and social elite who are sporting daring styles. It also contains fashion and shopping tips so that readers can recreate looks they see in the magazine on their own.

Critical Evaluation
Teen Vogue are for teens that are very serious and interested in the world of high fashion. The clothes and styles they feature are unique and daring, but they are not the type of look that a teen would wear everyday. Also, although they do give shopping tips, they tend to be more expensive in comparison to the suggestions found in Seventeen. It does contain articles that deal with school issues, but they are sparse. It depends on the personal taste of the teen whether they would appreciate this magazine.

Reader's Annotation
Teen Vogue is a teenager's guide to high fashion and styles.

About the Author
Amy Astley graduated from Michigan State University in 1989. She has been the editor of Teen Vogue since the beginning of the magazine in 2003. Previously she served as the Vogue's Beauty Director for nine years.

Conde Nast Publications currently publishes twenty-seven magazines. Its purpose is to produce magazines that focus on fashion, beauty and travel.

Genre
Magazine

Curriculum
None

Book Talking Ideas
None

Reading level/Interest Age
12+

Challenge Issues
None

Why Included in Selection
I wanted to include a magazine for teens that was very serious about teen fashion.

Play

Fiechter, Brady. Play. Fusion Publishing, 2001-2010. ASIN: B0000AFQQY.

Plot
This is a monthly published magazine. It contains editorials of trends in gaming as well as game design. It also reviews new and upcoming games and has interviews with game creators. In addition, it does reviews of consoles, games, equipment and gives news updates in the gaming world and technology.

Critical Evaluation
This magazine is for serious video game fans. Not only does the magazine contain various detailed reviews of games, but they also explore revolutionary artists and creators and how they are changing game programming. Although the majority of the magazine is dedicated to first person shooter games, they do contain information for puzzle games and Role playing games (RPG).

Reader's Annotation
Play is a monthly magazine that reviews, and explores multimedia games. They also write articles about trends in gaming and interviews game creators.


About the Author
Brady Fiechter is the editor in chief of Play magazine.

Fusion Publishing was founded by Dave Halverson in 1999. The goal of the company is to produce magazines that are focused on pop-culture and multimedia for teens to adults. In addition to Play they also publish Geek Monthly.

Genre
Magazine

Curriculum
None

Book Talking Ideas
None

Reading Level/Interest Age
12+

Challenge Issues
Some games featured in the magazine are violent or has disturbing images.

Challenge Answer
The games are not the creation of Play and are featured since they are a part of gaming.

Why Included in Selection
A lot of teens are into gaming, so this magazine was selected to be a way to keep up with that interest.

Seventeen

Shoket, Ann. Seventeen. Publisher varies, printed monthly since 1944. ISSN: 0037-301X

Plot
Seventeen magazine offers beauty and fashion tips for teenage girls. In addition they also run cover stories on teen celebrities and write articles about dating or serious issues that teens deal with.

Critical Evaluation
At first it seemed that this magazine only existed to convince girls to spend tons of money on clothes and accessories they don't need. As it turns out, the magazine does give good beauty tips that focuses on bringing out natural beauty using bargained priced make-up. Also, the magazine also contain articles that address some very hard teen issues such as addictions, abuse and coming of age issues. At the end of these articles they also give tips on how teens can help themselves.

Reader's Annotation
Teenagers, get some helpful tips on beauty, fashion and serious issues. Also, meet some teen celebrities and how they deal with the same everyday life issues as everyone else.

About the Author
The current editor in chief is Ann Shoket. She has worked previously as a reporter for The American Lawyer.

The magazine Seventeen was founded in 1944 by Walter Anenberg's Triangle Publications, since then the magazine has gone through different ownership. Currently Hearst owns the magazine since buying it from Primedia in 2003.

Genre
Magazine

Curriculum
None

Book Talking Ideas
None

Reading Level/Interest Age
12+

Challenge Issues
None

Why Included in Selection
it is a fun colorful magazine that is written for teenage girls.