... Library Association. The Outsiders was chosen by the New York Herald Tribune as one of the best teen-age books for 1967, and received the Media & Methods Maxi Award in 1975. Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. Hinton enjoyed reading books as an adolescent, but was dismayed to find only a small segment of ... a teen-ager's life depicted in literature. To remedy this oversight, the young author began to write about teens in a ... about everybody. I also recommend the movie, that is, if you are one of the few who ha...

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... peer bonds with one another, parents had enough money to give out allowances making jobs sometimes unnecessary. As a result teenagers became more independent of their parents and created their own "teen sub-culture" with different tastes in music, patterns of language and of course music than their parents had when they were their age. This would later come to be called ... , he"d have me committed." Teens newfound control and influence on the music market in particular, reflected their new freedom, increased free time and luxuries such as allowance and the new "teen culture" Parents wer...

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... sex education in schools and the addition of more federal aid for single parents are major causes for the country's high rate of teen pregnancies. When the true purpose of sex education and federal aid is to help strengthen the mother and her child so that they can ... This means, they could have babies, unwilling diseases and so on. In addition, at that time, sexuality information was mainly from magazines, and comic books, as I do believe pornography encourages sexual assaults. It shows women in a demanding manner and leads men to believe it is acceptable to abuse and ... harass femal...

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... the world is coming to the realization what their "fellow countrymen" are really like. Building up to Anne's most impressionable years. In 1958 was an eight-teen year old. Graduating out of high school in Texas. She now is wittiness to Cuban President fleeing to the Dominican Republic and Hawaii becoming the 50th state. ... her feelings to hate and sorrow and what the world feared and didn't talk about she brought to life. 1974, she met Phyllis who published two of her books and started her career. Now to understand where this is to lead, the knowledge is of what Anne's mind is like. No...

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... while looking for a number of sources I would come across the same information; making claims and formatting different citations was also difficult. In the end, a majority of the sources I used were books because they seemed to give the most accurate information. At first it was hard to find complete information on Sojourner Truth because most of the sources and information I found became ... very repetitive and lacked valuable details. Because of this I spent a lot of time reading and reviewing books and articles about her. Surprisingly one day, I had spent a total of two hours just re...

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... political Party when she was 21, she was the mother of the late Legend Tupac Amaru Shakur. Tupac was a social scientist, who rapped about economical pressure, broken families, poverty, drugs, teen pregnancy, genocide, and political issues. Afeni raised Tupac to become a "Black Prince" of his generation. (http://www.alleyezonme.com) In his short twenty-five years of life, he accomplished his ... living in Baltimore, "We didn't have any lights. I used to sit outside be the streetlights and read the autobiography of Malcolm X. And then of course my mother had me read books by people like ....

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... with his grandparents and friends of the family in Lawrence, Kansas. His mother finally called for him, and they moved to Topeka, Kansas where he first discovered the library and books. It was also in Topeka where Hughes made his first discoveries about race. As the only Negro attending a white school he was occasionally exposed to beatings from other students and ... white people," "And ever since it has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been." (Haskins 4). The now 14 teen year-old Hughes was elected class poet and giving ...

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Rose Earhart, Dorcas Good, The Diary of a Salem Witch (New York: Pendleton Books, 2000) Dorcas Good is a novel in diary form. The main purpose of the novel is to chronicle four-year-old Dorcas Good's time in a Salem jail, held for witchcraft. It ... her father's custody, only after spending over seven months in the dark jail, chained to the wall, and being held down by heavy weights. The novel skips ahead to her teen years, she had become a prostitute, her father selling her nightly to the local men or traveling seamen. Her father continued to physically and sexually abuse her, while making ...

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... his life, and he suffered from very low self-esteem. His parents were not particularly socially oriented and neither was David. Berkowitz was always insecure about his large size as a teen, feeling different and less attractive than his peers. Throughout his youth, he was uncomfortable with others and himself. Some childhood activities that perhaps could have hinted towards a violent future included ... , walking home from evening classes when Berkowitz approached her from the opposite direction. He drew a gun and fatally shot her in the face, as she shielded her face with her books. Ber...

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... the New York Times. New York has only four four star restaurants, and Trump owns one of them. Trump also owns the Miss Universe Pageant, Miss USA, and also Miss Teen USA. Trump Tower is one of Donald's favorite buildings. He favors it so much because it houses some of the greatest tenants that are paying very high rates, but, more ... it and thought that it was well written and was packed full of stories and ideas that prompted me to continue reading. I am going to read the other two Trump books soon....

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... the New York Times. New York has only four four star restaurants, and Trump owns one of them. Trump also owns the Miss Universe Pageant, Miss USA, and also Miss Teen USA. Trump Tower is one of Donald's favorite buildings. He favors it so much because it houses some of the greatest tenants that are paying very high rates, but, more ... it and thought that it was well written and was packed full of stories and ideas that prompted me to continue reading. I am going to read the other two Trump books soon....

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• Grade Level: High School