About this series
Inspire teen and preteen readers to take responsibility for and make wiser decisions about their lives with the essays in this book—each written by a teenager. Within these pages, Jamel A. Salter, Fan Yi Mok, and Charlene George, and many others, describe how and why they chose to keep it real and fight back against the pressure they felt from friends to use drugs and alcohol; have sex too early; lie, cheat, and steal; and skip or act out in school.
Essays include:
- My Secret Love
- Losing My Friends to Weed
- Why Do So Many Teens Cheat?
- Can't Afford to Follow
- Hiding My Talent No More
- Why I Speak My Mind
- Sex Doesn't Make You a Man
- My So-Called Friends
- Making Me Dance
- Peer Pressure Ended Our Relationship
- I Want to Be Pretty and Popular
- The Trouble with Being a Virgin
- Thinking for Myself
- and more!
Titles in the series (1)
- Healthy Living for Teens: Inspiring Advice on Diet, Exercise, and Handling Stress
In Healthy Living for Teens, young writers show that it’s possible to overcome bad habits and lead healthy lives in a time when substance abuse, junk food, and low self-esteem and self-worth are major social problems. Inspire teen and preteen readers to take responsibility for and make wiser decisions about their lives with the essays in this book—each written by a teenager. Within these pages, Edwin Mercado, Evelyn Gofman, Antwaun Garcia, and many others describe how they got on the right path toward healthy habits, breaking unhealthy ones like smoking, taking drugs, abusing alcohol, or seeking comfort in foods they know are unhealthy. Essays include: Tales of a 17-Year-Old Smoker How I Quit Fast Food Clean and Kind of Sober What Drugs Do to You Starving for Acceptance Shapin' Up! Dear Food Diary Guttony Getaway I Desperately Needed Cooking 101 What is Bad Food so Good? Why Should Teens Care About Nutrition? My Hood is Bad for My Health Male on the Scale Scaling Back The Would-Be Vegetarian Breathing Easier How Exercise Relieves Stress Poetry Keeps Me Calm Do for You Nature is My Salvation My Life with OCD Arthritis at Thirteen Addled on Adderal and more Through these essays, teen readers—as well as their parents, teachers, and caregivers—will pick up new tricks to beating bad habits but will also be provided a much-needed glimpse into how the world looks to our younger generations.
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