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Early Adolescence: Understanding the 10 to 15 year old
by Gail A. Caissy, Ed. D.  1994                   Order Book

A overview of the important issues for early adolescence - biological, physical, emotional, intellectual, social, psychological. Full of practical information and ideas.

Your Adolescent : Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Development from Early Adolescence Through the Teen Years
by American Academy of Child and Adolescent psychiatry     Order Book

What every parent needs to know: what's normal, what's not, and when to seek help.

A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence

Patricia Hersch , 1998                                                 Order Book    

To research this book Hersch followed the lives of teenagers full time for three years in her middle class town of Reston, Virginia. For a year she attended high school, occasionally guest teaching but mostly just attending class and listening. Hersch, a former contributing editor of Psychology Today, concludes that today’s teens have been left on their own to make their own choices and determine their own fates. She writes: "The most stunning change for adolescents today is the aloneness. The adolescents of the nineties are more isolated and more unsupervised than other generations." I am reminded of the motivation for founding NoM captured in the phrase "never alone again".

Whereas A Totally Alien Life Form – Teenagers tells the story in the adolescence’s own words, Hersch tells the story as a historian from several points of view including parents, teachers, youth workers, and of course the adolescence’s themselves. If you could read only one of these two books I would choose A Tribe Apart. Fortunately both books are written so that the reader could pick them and start at the beginning of any chapter.

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Teenager's lives in their own words

A Totally Alien Life Form – Teenagers

by Sydney Lewis , 1996           Order Book: Hardcover   Paperback

Each chapter is a teenager telling his or her story in their own words.   Author Sydney Lewis worked for many years with the oral historian Studs Terkel.

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