Title:
Resisting peer pressure for teens : advice on drugs, school, sex, and fitting in
ISBN:
9781510759947
9781713791133
Physical Description:
vii, 123 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published as Keeping it Real in 2009 by Youth Communication. Additional stories appeared in YCteen, 2012-2018." -- verso.
Contents:
Introduction -- My secret love / Anonymous -- Losing my friends to weed / Jamel A. Salter -- Why do so many teens cheat? / Fan Yi Mok -- Can't afford to follow / Charlene George -- Hiding my talent no more / Jesselin Rodriguez -- Why I speak my mind / Desiree Bailey -- Sex doesn't make you a man / Damon Washington -- My so-called friends / Sharon Feder -- Making me dance / Jill Feigelman - Peer pressure ended our relationship / Lenny Jones -- My bad / by V.P. -- The pastor's daughter / Natalia Tavarez - I wanted to be pretty and popular / Sabrina Rencher -- The trouble with being a virgin / Anonymous -- Doing the opposite / Donald Moore -- Trying femininity on for size / Debbie Seraphin -- Thinking for myself / Anonymous -- Hear no evil, see no evil... do no evil / Curtis Holmes -- What's wrong with reading? / Anthony Turner -- Freed from the herd / Malik F. -- The cost of being popular / Hande Erkan -- How I became a racist / Anonymous -- Teens: How to get more out of this book -- Teachers and staff: How to use this book in staff training -- Teachers and staff: How to use this book in groups.
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Added Uniform Title:
My secret love.
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Summary:
"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." --
