Screen Teen Writers: How Young Screenwriters Can Find Success
Grade 9-Up This book certainly offers some useful information, but  it seems to have an identity crisis in not knowing whether it is  a guidebook, an interview book, or a self-guided course (which  the author also teaches online). The instructions cover the  basics for any novice screenwriter, and each chapter includes  assignments (and extra credit projects) for readers to complete.  An interview with an "industry professional" is appended to each  section; it usually includes an obligatory question about teens  but has little to do with the material just covered. Each  chapter ends with "Topics to Think About and Talk About," to be  written as further short assignments or essays. Syd Field's  Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (MJF, 1998) is a  more straightforward and better-organized choice. -Betty S.  Evans, Southwest Missouri State University, SpringfieldCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.