Table of Contents
Introduction v
My Secret Love | Anonymous 1
Losing My Friends to Weed Jamel A. Salter 5
Why Do So Many Teens Cheat? Fan Yi Mok 9
Can't Afford to Follow Charlene George 14
Hiding My Talent No More Jesselin Rodriguez 19
Why I Speak My Mind Desiree Bailey 25
Sex Doesn't Make You a Man Damon Washington 29
My So-Called Friends Sharon Fedex 33
Making Me Dance Jill Feigelman 42
Peer Pressure Ended Our Relationship Lenny Jones 45
My Bad V.P. 51
The Pastor's Daughter Natalia Tavarez 56
I Wanted to Be Pretty and Popular Sabrina Rencher 59
The Trouble with Being a Virgin | Anonymous 65
Doing the Opposite Donald Moore 73
Trying Femininity on for Size Debbie Seraphin 76
Thinking for Myself | Anonymous 82
Hear No Evil, See No Evil … Do No Evil Curtis Holmes 90
What's Wrong with Reading? Anthony Turner 93
Freed from the Herd Malik F. 98
The Cost of Being Popular Hande-Erkan 102
How I Became a Racist | Anonymous 107
Teens: How to Get More Out of this Book 113
Teachers and Staff: How to Use This Book in Staff Training 115
Teachers and Staff: How to Use This Book in Groups 117
Credits 119
About Youth Communication 121
About the Editors 123