Discovery Girls

Title:  Discovery Girls

ISSN: 1535-3230

Media: Magazine

Audience: Girls 8 - 12

Summary

Discovery Girls is a bi-monthly magazine for girl. The magazine's goal, as stated in its website, is "to help girls grow and develop, forming a positive sense of self through solutions that build confidence, resilience and independence. The magazine's contents are up front, favorites, features, quizzes & contests, and entertainment." It tries to help girls to deal with the problems that they might have. Discovery Girls is a magazine created by girls for girls, so the topics of the articles are that matter to tween girls. Topics include, not limited to, fashion, games, idols, braces, and puberty.

Review

The magazine is very great for tween girls. Tween girls that are the same age as their audiences write most of the articles. In order words, the readers are reading something that has similar perspective with them. Readers feel related. They wouldn't feel alone because there is someone out has the same opinions with them.  In addition, readers can submit the opinions/problems to be publish in the magazine, so it can be shared with others. This magazine is also a good resource for tween librarians because it has a book reviews section that the reviews are written by tweens.

Sports Illustrated Kids

Title: Sports Illustrated Kids

ISSN: 1041-394X

Publisher: Time Inc.

Frequency: Monthly

Summary

Sports Illustrated Kids is the kid version of Sports Illustrated. The magazine has separate sections. It stated with the Warmup section. It gives information on sport events, young athletes, tips to become athlete, and figures. It follows by feature articles on athletes' information and gear guide. Each issue has a special topic, such the college football review for the August 2011 issue.  One of the feature articles is from Sports Illustrated. The magazine ended with the End Zone section that has a Q&A, puzzle, and Art Gallery. There is comic titled Buzz Beamer. It is baseball related comic. The magazine comes with a poster and sports card.

Review

This is a magazine that targeting at tweens and teens, particularly boys who interested in sports. With the End Zone section, readers will feel involve because readers play the puzzle and submit their drawing to the magazine, which is attractive to kids. Another thing I think is attractive to kids is the magazine uses comic as illustrations. I think the editor is clever to include an article from Sports Illustrated. It helps transit readers to the adult Sports Illustrated, as its readers become young adults and adults.

J-14

Title: J-14

Editor: Rachel Chang

Summary

J-14 is a teenager celebrity magazine that published monthly in United States. The title of the magazine may be stand of “just for teens.” It was first published in January 2001. The magazine is aiming at tween girls. The main sections of the magazine are news, stars, guys, entertainment, and style. The main feature of the magazine is to provide information to readers about teenagers celebrities. Beside celebrities information, the magazine is also an information source for fashion and beauty. There is a poll section. It helps understanding tweens by reading the polls, such as opinion on getting tattoo in teen years.

Review
J-14 is pretty popular among tween girl, because in content information about their idols. It even provides posters of idols. The magazine is full of colorful photos of celebrities, which is attracting. I think it might have too many photo. It is somewhat making me dizzy when I flip through the pages. It is a source of information for tweens.

Shonen Jump

Title: Shonen Jump

Type: Manga Magazine

Audience: 10 or up

Summary

Shonen Jump is a monthly magazine published by Viz Media in North America. Shonen in Japanese mean young male, so the magazine aiming at boys. It is a mange anthology that have serialized chapters of four or five mangas. Every issue, it has four or five chapters of each manga. Mangas in serialized have different genres, such as action, adventure, mystery, martial arts, fantasy, romance, etc. The current serialized mangas are Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Bleach, One Piece, Psyren, and Naruto. Besides the manga, the magazine also has features articles, information on up coming news of mangas, anime, and video game, fan art, and a media guide.

Review
Usually a volume of a manga is published every three months. This magazine has considered that may be a pleasure for readers that he or she can read partial of the manga books before the actual manga books being published. It keeps readers attract to it. Different genres of mangas help attract different segment of readers. This is also a drawback. If a reader only interest of one manga or one genre, other mangas will be left unread. A small portion of mangas does have violent content that might have bad influence to teens. Overall, the content is suitable for tweens and teens.