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Backed by excerpts from her eighth-grade diary, writer Roberta Israeloff breaths life into the widely trumpeted theory that girls lose a strong sense of self as they reach adolescence. Too tall, too springy-haired, too athletically inclined, too smart, and way too outspoken, young Israeloff seesawed between bullish assurance in her own powers and massive insecurity about whether her abilities would push people away. The time she's writing of--the early 1960s--seems tame in today's light. Crossing her adolescent Rubicon called for attendance at necking parties, but little sex otherwise, no drugs, and not a lot of rebellious acting out. In cogent prose, Israeloff uses her life to make timeless points about why many girls choose to buckle under and how they can reclaim their early fire years later. "What's lost rarely remains so," she muses. "Even when you're sure something is gone for good, it's probably changed into something else."