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Love and Profanity : A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life by Geoff Herbach, Sarah Childers, Rachael Hanel, Kasandra Duthie and Anna Vodicka (2015, Reinforced)

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Love & Profanity features more than forty brief, brilliant, and unforgettable true stories from writers both renowned and on the rise. Discover strange and surprising scenes of people coming of age amidst the everyday intensity of teenage life. Witness transformative moments arising from the mundane. Behold the young adult in full splendor and horror, bursting with love and profanity.

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PublisherCapstone

ISBN-101630790125

ISBN-139781630790127

eBay Product ID (ePID)205581725

Product Key Features

Book TitleLove and Profanity : A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life

TopicFamily / Parents, Social Topics / Dating & Relationships, Family / Marriage & Divorce, Family / Siblings, Social Topics / Adolescence

Publication Year2015

LanguageEnglish

GenreYoung Adult Nonfiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

AuthorRachael Hanel, Sarah Childers, Geoff Herbach, Anna Vodicka, Kasandra Duthie

Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience, Young Adults

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6in

Item Length7.5in

Item Width5in

Item Weight12 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN2014-032797

ReviewsShort yet powerful autobiographical stories comprise this collection of consistently excellent, vivid writing. . . .The stories are, by turns, edgy, nostalgic, poignant, sad, and humorous, with some offering a combination of these qualities. Each selection is heartfelt and thought-provoking and could be a catalyst for intensive discussion., Moments of exhilaration and humiliation, narrow escapes, and epiphanies that opened their eyes and ended their childhoods are all given the significance of hindsight. . . .the authors, perhaps because they are working with true stories from their own pasts, show admirable restraint and reveal not how edgy but how nerdy and ordinary many YA authors were as teens. Sure to give hope to aspiring writers, then, this collection offers models for how ordinary moments turn into stories, and ordinary kids turn into storytellers., Each story takes only a few minutes or less to read, but they linger in the mind for much longer, offering sharp, fresh perspectives on the kinds of experiences that, for teens, are both commonplace and life-changing -- the kinds of experiences that, in editor Nick Healy's words, "define and explain ourselves.", Each of these 40-plus very short stories unveils a memory of being a teenager that is important to its respective writer. . . .Such issues as body image, cliques, family strife, economic status and popularity are recurring themes throughout and will resonate with teen readers. . . .Teens who enjoy slice-of-life vignettes that evoke a specific time and place and adults who thrill to nostalgia will find a lot to like about these pithy, honestly awkward and poignant minimemoirs., ...concise and punchy. . . .the brevity of the stories, the honesty of their authors, and their tidy organization lend themselves well to browsing, increasing the likelihood that teen readers will find something they connect with., ...relentlessly fascinating brief true stories from YA writers about their own teen years. . . .it's irresistible..., These well-written and intensely personal reminiscences are often raw and gritty, exposing the realistic, and not always admirable, behavior of typical adolescents. Both the realism of the vignettes and their shortness will appeal to reluctant readers, as well as creative writing teachers needing prompts., More than 40 brief true stories from Pete Hautman, Alison McGhee, Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka and others address a vast range of experiences and emotions that will be painfully familiar to teens or anyone who ever was one. . . .Hilarity, heartache, terror, regret, shame, and self-awakening can all be found in this collection of finely wrought moments in time., Featuring such YA authors as Carrie Mesrobian, Steve Brezenoff, Pete Hautman, and Joseph Bruchac, the stories are painful, humorous, embarrassing, nostalgic, and insightful., From the title and cover I did not know that this book would be one of the sweetest and most terrifyingly authentic things I've read. None of the stories were groundbreaking or shocking; they were simply beautiful and honest. . . .undeniably genuine and heartfelt stories -- teen readers, give them a try!

Grade fromEighth Grade

Grade toTwelfth Grade

Lc Classification NumberHq796.L6795 2015

Number of Pages232 Pages