Am I Weird or Is This Normal?: Advice and Info to Get Teens in the Know

Marlin S. Potash, Laura Potash Fruitman. Fireside Books, $13 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-1087-4

In Am I Weird or Is This Normal?: Advice and Info to Get Teens in the Know, Marlin Potash and his 16-year-old daughter, Laura Potash Fruitman, with Lisa Sussman, touch on, among other things, dating, drugs, money, college admissions, eating disorders, friendship and sex. Pressing questions are followed by honest answers from the psychologist and the teenager, each experts in their own way. Sidebars provide helpful tips, checklists and straightforward discussions. (Sept.)

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