Resisting Peer Pressure for Teens: Advice on Drugs, School, Sex, and Fitting In

by Youth Communication (Editor), Al Desetta (Editor)

Overview

In Resisting Peer Pressure for Teens, young writers show that it’s possible to stand up to the pressure they may feel from friends and some family members to be "cool."

Inspire teen and preteen readers to take responsibility for and make wiser decisions about their lives with the essays in this book—each written by a teenager. Within these pages, Jamel A. Salter, Fan Yi Mok, and Charlene George, and many others, describe how and why they chose to keep it real and fight back against the pressure they felt from friends to use drugs and alcohol; have sex too early; lie, cheat, and steal; and skip or act out in school.

Essays include:

• My Secret Love
• Losing My Friends to Weed
• Why Do So Many Teens Cheat?
• Can't Afford to Follow
• Hiding My Talent No More
• Why I Speak My Mind
• Sex Doesn't Make You a Man
• My So-Called Friends
• Making Me Dance
• Peer Pressure Ended Our Relationship
• I Want to Be Pretty and Popular
• The Trouble with Being a Virgin
• Thinking for Myself
• and more!

Through these essays, teen readers will pick up new ways to say no and advice that will help them stay true to themselves, while parents, teachers, and caregivers will be provided a much-needed glimpse into how the world looks to our younger generations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510759947
Publisher:	Sky Pony
Publication date:	03/15/2022
Series:	YC Teen's Advice from Teens Like You
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	305,046
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

YCteen publishes true stories by teens, giving readers insight into the issues that matter most in young people's lives. They are headquartered in New York, New York.

Al Desetta has been an editor of Youth Communication’s two teen magazines, Foster Care Youth United (now known as Represent) and New Youth Connections. He was also an instructor in Youth Communication’s juvenile prison writing program. In 1991, he became the organization’s first director of teacher development, working with high school teachers to help them produce better writers and student publications. Prior to working at Youth Communication, Desetta directed environmental education projects in New York City public high schools and worked as a reporter.

Table of Contents

Introduction v

My Secret Love | Anonymous 1

Losing My Friends to Weed Jamel A. Salter 5

Why Do So Many Teens Cheat? Fan Yi Mok 9

Can't Afford to Follow Charlene George 14

Hiding My Talent No More Jesselin Rodriguez 19

Why I Speak My Mind Desiree Bailey 25

Sex Doesn't Make You a Man Damon Washington 29

My So-Called Friends Sharon Fedex 33

Making Me Dance Jill Feigelman 42

Peer Pressure Ended Our Relationship Lenny Jones 45

My Bad V.P. 51

The Pastor's Daughter Natalia Tavarez 56

I Wanted to Be Pretty and Popular Sabrina Rencher 59

The Trouble with Being a Virgin | Anonymous 65

Doing the Opposite Donald Moore 73

Trying Femininity on for Size Debbie Seraphin 76

Thinking for Myself | Anonymous 82

Hear No Evil, See No Evil … Do No Evil Curtis Holmes 90

What's Wrong with Reading? Anthony Turner 93

Freed from the Herd Malik F. 98

The Cost of Being Popular Hande-Erkan 102

How I Became a Racist | Anonymous 107

Teens: How to Get More Out of this Book 113

Teachers and Staff: How to Use This Book in Staff Training 115

Teachers and Staff: How to Use This Book in Groups 117

Credits 119

About Youth Communication 121

About the Editors 123