Table of Contents
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Introduction

Too Late to Turn Back Now
W. Bruce Cameron: ---- Teenager Owner’s Manual
Jeffrey K. Wallace: ---- Shopping for Kotex
Connie E. Curry: ---- Homework Assignment
Barbara Kingsolver: ---- Letter to a Daughter at Thirteen
Nina Gaby: ---- The Thong Question

Baby, It's a Wild World
Roz Chaz: ---- Trust (cartoon)
David Carkeet: ---- How to Lie to Your Parents
Rebecca Boucher: ---- The Dark Side of the Moon
Daniel Glick: ---- I Definitely Inhaled
Helen Klein Ross: ---- Their Bodies, Ourselves
Stevan Allred: ---- Only Rock 'n' Roll

I Think I'm Goin Out of My Head
Dave Barry: ---- Warning: An American Teenager is Loose in Europe
Roberta Israeloff: ---- Junior Year
Irene Hopkins: ---- The Seven Circles of Hormone Hell
Nancy Blakely: ---- Sex Education
Linda Rue Quinn: ---- "Mom? Everything's okay, but..."
Peter Applebome: ---- The Accidental Boy Scout
Gail Hudson: ---- How to Get Into College Without Really Trying

Tell It Like It Is
Elizabeth Nunez: ---- The Color of T-shirts
Susan Hodara: ---- Sofie's Boots
Debra Gwartney: ---- Runaway
Flor Fernandez Barrios: ---- Tia Tata
Joyce Maynard: ---- The Girlfriend Sleeps Over
Marion Winik: ---- Gods and Monsters

Piece of My Heart
Louise Erdrich: ---- Turn Signals
Laura Smith Porter: ---- Band of Brothers
Stephen J. Lyons: ---- Commuting with Rose
Anna Viadero: ---- Sons
Alex Witchel: ---- Freshman Orientation
Hal Ackerman: ---- Alfalfa
Anna Quindlen: ---- Flown Away, Left Behind