When Kim can't handle things, she eats. Then she purges. Sometimes she fasts. She knows she isn't as thin as the other girls on her gymnastics team, and she's worried that now, away from home for the first time as a college freshman, she won't be able to live up to expectations -- especially her own. Eating is the one thing she can control -- or can she?
Beatrice Sparks Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
Beatrice Sparksová bola americká autorka známa svojimi knihami, ktoré boli prezentované ako skutočné denníky dospievajúcich. Tieto diela sa venovali aktuálnym témam ako zneužívanie drog, satanizmus, tínedžerske tehotenstvo či AIDS a slúžili ako varovné príbehy. Sparksová sa prezentovala ako objaviteľka a redaktorka denníkov, hoci záznamy naznačujú, že bola uvedená ako ich výhradná autorka. Jej motiváciou bolo zdieľať skúsenosti s dospievajúcimi a vytvárať príbehy, ktoré by varovali iných mladých ľudí pred pádom do podobných pascí.
More compelling than ever, this classic real-life diary charts an anonymous teenage girl's struggle with the seductive--and often fatal--world of drugs.
Annie's Baby
- 256 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
When Annie discovers she's pregnant by her boyfriend, she's devastated. She has never felt so alone. With no one she can talk to, she pours her heart out to her diary, confiding her feelings of panic, self-doubt, and the desperate hope that some day she can turn her life around. She decides she wants to keep her baby and dreams of loving and caring for this little person. But after the baby is born, it's in her diary that she faces the agonizing question: Can she really raise this child on her own?
Who in his right mind wants to talk to a shrink? I don't want to talk about anything. I don't want to feel anything, taste anything ... or anything. The lyrics "just dying to die" run around in my brain day and night... Fifteen-year-old Sam is in pain. He comes to the therapist's office unwillingly, angry, depressed, and filled with guilt over his own self-destructive behavior. He is being drawn deeper and deeper into a black hole of despair from which he sees no way out. The Road Back This is the Real-life story of Sam's Recovery, told from tapes of his therapy sessions. It tells what drove him to leave home, how he survived on the street, and why he was desperate to escape from the brutality of the gang that had become his "family" and from the torment of his own self-loathing. For every teen who has experienced the pain and loneliness of a no-way-out darkness, and for all those who love them, here is the light that can lead the way back.
The editor of the classic GO ASK ALICE has compiled the poignant journals of a 14-year-old date-rape victim who contracted AIDS and died.