For Teens Only: Quotes, Notes, & Advice You Can Use

Carol Weston. HarperTrophy, $8.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-06-000214-5

Author of Private and Personal: Questions and Answers for Girls Only, advice columnist Carol Weston offers more words to the wise in For Teens Only: Quotes, Notes & Advice You Can Use. Friends, school and family are among the topics covered. Quotes-ranging from Eleanor Roosevelt to Helen Gurley Brown-precede each of Weston's entries.

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