Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.
A violent teen named Alex is "rehabilitated" by the government in this satirical view of the future of the industrialized world; also includes a glossary of the novel's Russian-based "nadsat" language.
An epistolary novel about a teenager named Elizabeth, made up of notes and letters from her best friend, a runaway named Celia; Christina, the new pen pal Elizabeth reluctantly takes on for a school assignment; her busy mother; and Elizabeth's own angst-ridden mind.
an owner's manual for teens : safety, maintenance, and operating instructions for teens
Jukes, Mavis
2002
Provides information for boys on changes that occur in their bodies during puberty and offering advice on sexual topics, nutrition, drugs, girls, and more.
A collection of essays written by the author from age fifteen to seventeen in which he shares impressions of school, sports, cool people, boring people, friends, family, money, music, and obsessions.
Profiles one hundred books for young adults, providing bibliographic information, age levels, plot summaries, commentary, further reading lists, and lists of passages for "booktalks.".
Poems written in the voices of forty-seven people, including students, teachers, and other school staff, record the aftermath of a high school student's suicide and the preoccupations of teen life.
Presents an annotated bibliography of over one thousand fiction and nonfiction books of interest to high school students, grouped in over thirty thematic chapters, with author, subject, and title indexes.
Presents an A to Z volume that provides information on the different kinds of families, and addresses issues important to teens on topics such as adoption, divorce, coping with stepparents, teen pregnancy, violence in the family, and more.
