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Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves - Community Reviews back

by Joseph Bruchac, Kersten Hamilton, Sara Zarr, Mitali Perkins, Mari Mancusi, Stasia Ward Kehoe, Ellen Hopkins, Dave Roman, Don Tate, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Caridad Ferrer, Jessica Lee Anderson, Melissa Walker, Carrie Jones, Charles Benoit, Jo Whittemore, Mariko Tamaki, Jenn
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Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 12 years ago
Tempting though it may be I am not going to extrapolate from these letters, not to authors at large, not to anything. This is a collection of letters from mostly still quite young authors, offering advice, encouragement, support, and insight to their younger selves. Everyone had bears to cross, some...
Regina's Reads
Regina's Reads rated it 12 years ago
I checked out this book to read the Sara Zarr letter. Each letter is short and easy to read. Enjoyable, not life alterting but I enjoyed the ones I read.
NuzSayItwithBooks
NuzSayItwithBooks rated it 12 years ago
"And yes, It does get better.Much better" Anthologies are not something that I enjoy but I came across Dear Teen Me during Zest Books Blog Tour.There were a lot of positive reviews and I thought I'd give it a try.Dear Teen Me i a collection of letters from YA authors to their younger selves.I loved ...
Books With Bite
Books With Bite rated it 12 years ago
I loved getting to know each other more personally that I ever would. As the reader, you get into the depths of who the author was and who they became. Some struggled harder than others. Reading each story is unique and totally different style of writing. I didn't read all of the authors stories onl...
Xpresso Reads
Xpresso Reads rated it 12 years ago
We all wonder what high school would have been like if we knew then what we know now. Or at least I do. I would not have been so hard on myself, for one. But on the other hand, if you could change any part of your high school experience, would you risk losing where you ended up? This novel is filled...
lizpatanders
lizpatanders rated it 12 years ago
I love the concept behind Dear Teen Me. I think some of the mistakes I’ve made throughout my life are ones I’ve learned from, but sometimes one just looks back and cringes or wishes one had done things differently. That is precisely what the authors in this book talk about.Every letter in this boo...
BookHounds
BookHounds rated it 12 years ago
MY THOUGHTSLOVED ITThis book is a collection letters written by popular young adult authors to themselves as teens to tell them that essentially, life does get better. Well, in some cases, it does get way worse than better, but eventually, things do look up. There are all kinds of confessions invo...
The Reading Geek
The Reading Geek rated it 12 years ago
I really enjoyed reading the Dear Teen Me anthology. I actually visited the website a few times last year so I was really excited when I first heard that the letters would be compiled into a book. There is such a variety of letters included in this book. Some letters are even in the form of drawings...
lisamandina3
lisamandina3 rated it 12 years ago
Would love to have a copy of this to share with my students!
xxsquigglesxx
xxsquigglesxx rated it 12 years ago
OVERALL IMPRESSION: You could easily look through the table of contents to find a story that relates to your situation, or you could read it through cover to cover, which is what I did.I love the Q & A features. I wish there were more of them. It was interesting to me to see the different responses ...
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