Starting High School
It may be hard for you to leave your primary school. You may have been there since reception and have had the same friends all this time, or perhaps you didn't enjoy it very much and can't wait to move on to a new opportunity. If you are sad ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Cory Doctorow
Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's ... [... more]
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Ben Joravsky
Ben Joravsky is a prize winning journalist whose piece about Chicago's Roosevelt High School was chosen as one of 1992's outstanding sports articles. ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Giles Carwyn
Giles Carwyn and Todd Fahnestock met in high school sixteen years ago. Within an hour of meeting, they started a philosophical conversation they haven't yet been able to finish. Their nomadic lifepaths have ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Patricia Beatty
Patricia Beatty was born in Portland, Oregon, and was a longtime resident of southern California. After graduating from college, she taught high school English and history, and later held various positions as a ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Rebecca Burton
Nat, Lise, and Sofia are best friends. This year, their last year of high school, none of them foresees the changes that will occur in their lives. ... [... more]
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Matthew Mcgough
Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion for the New York Yankees was absolute, ... [... more]
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Jack L. Chalker
Jack L. Chalker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 17, 1944. While still in high school, he began writing for the amateur science-fiction press, and in 1960 he launched the Hugo-nominated amateur magazine ... [... more]
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Judith Minthorn Stacy
Judith Minthorn Stacy, a native of Michigan, married a Southerner right out of high school, had four children, and at various times worked as a salesclerk, a waitress, and a respiratory therapist. She does not style ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Daphne Rubin-Vega
MILLY KAUFMAN IS an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont--until she meets Pablo, a new student at her high school. His exotic accent, strange fashion sense, and intense interest in Milly force her to confront ... [... more]
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Elisabeth Moss
High school junior Jenny Greenley is good at solving other people's problems . . . so good she's the school newspapers' anonymous advice columnist. But when nineteen-year-old screen sensation Luke Striker comes to ... [... more]
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Starting High School
Set up your own "buddy system". Find out the names of some students who will be going to the same school as your teenager and arrange for them to meet in the holidays. If they don't know each other make it easy, eg by inviting the family to a .. ... [... more]
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