I started with book reviews.
The result was 16634 hits which is an unmanageable amount of articles.
In order to narrow down the hits I added the second facet of teen which yielded 1474 hits.
The third facet, fiction, narrowed the results to 626 hits, and the titles appear to be more along the lines of what I am looking for.
This is still more than I would like to comb through so I decided to limit the search by date in order to find the most recent articles. Using 2009 found 232 hits, many of which I am interested in looking at for ideas for conducting a teen book club. One of the first hits, Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire, is a book I have not read but would like to know more about.
The specific facet first search worked well for this search even though the initial term was not a terribly specific phrase. Even so, it was the most specific phrase in the search so it was used first. I did not want to narrow this particular search to just one or two articles because my interest is in finding many reviews of recent young adult literature. If the final searches had narrowed the results to just a couple of articles, I would have removed the last search term to broaden the search. It was important to find quite a few articles to look through, and I was able to do this in Project Muse with this particular query.
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