A Totally Alien Life-Form: Teenagers

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Summary: Powerful interviews with teens
Review: I'm not sure why this book has not be interviewed before. It's a very powerful collection of oral stories about the lives of teens from various economic, cutlural, and gender backgrounds. As you might expect, many of the stories are of teens with troubled backgrounds. There are stories about teens and drugs, teens coming a bi-racial families, teens of immigrant families, and teens alienated from so-called mainstream society.

I've used several of these stories in my classroom with high school students and I found them to be very helpful for classroom disucssions on issues of ethnic identity, homosexuality, racism, teenage pregnancy, and what it means to live bi-culturally.

I highly recommend this book to parents, teachers, and anyone who works with teens on regular basis.