With so many resources already covering past and more modern-day classics, Literary Newsmakers for Students fills a glaring need for analysis and criticism on recent novels and other works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Providing all the same curriculum-related information researchers have come to expect from a more traditional reference, this title covers recent releases, including: "The Da Vinci Code," by Dan Brown; "The Secret Life of Bees," by Sue Monk Kidd; "Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini; "The Last Juror," by John Grisham; "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser and "Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices," by Walter Dean Myers.