Best & Buzz Worthy 2017: World Records, Trending Topics and Viral Moments, written by Cynthia O'Brien, reviewed by Klaudia Janek

Summary: This book is a non-fiction current event book. The chapters tend to be divided by music, movies, technology, animals, science, state stats and sports. Then end of the book covers the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge. There are photos and graphics on every page. Michigan fans will probably notice that Madonna is a musician with the most MTV video music awards at 20 and Eminem is behind her with 12! (21). Big Bang Theory fans will notice that 4 of the 5 highest paid tv actors made the list. Mark Harmon is 3rd on the list for his role in NCIS. The world’s most expensive hotel comes in at $60,000 a night. It’s the Hotel President Wilson in Switzerland. This book is chock full of many more facts that will appeal to your trivia lovers.

Straight Talk for Librarians: This book is a good book to just place on a table in the school library for fun quick reading. Readers who like BuzzFeed lists or something similar will enjoy this book. It is non-fiction, but along the lines of the Guiness Book of World Records. I think you would have to make this an annual purchase ad it is pretty timely. It is very visual and would appeal to all sorts of readers. I think that it might even make for a good pick for adults who like attending trivia nights or compete on teams. I’m going to try to put it out for high school students who might want to pick it up for pleasure reading to just pass some time. I think it could also generate ideas or topics for various speech research or other current event essay ideas. Some of the statistics could be explored in a math class. I think it’s a good choice for a middle or high school library.