Synopses & Reviews
Dear Teen Me includes advice from over 70 YA authors (including Lauren Oliver, Ellen Hopkins, and Nancy Holder, to name a few) to their teenage selves. The letters cover a wide range of topics, including physical abuse, body issues, bullying, friendship, love, and enough insecurities to fill an auditorium. So pick a page, and find out which of your favorite authors had a really bad first kiss? Who found true love at 18? Who wishes heand#8217;d had more fun in high school instead of studying so hard? Some authors write diary entries, some write letters, and a few graphic novelists turn their stories into visual art. And whether you hang out with the theater kids, the band geeks, the bad boys, the loners, the class presidents, the delinquents, the jocks, or the nerds, youand#8217;ll find friends--and a lot of familiar faces--in the course of Dear Teen Me.
Review
and#8220;The breadth of emotion and experience the entries cover guarantee that almost any reader will identify with some of the situations and anxieties expressed.and#8221; and#8212; Publishers Weekly
"Along with sincere encouragement and sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious, honesty, we also get photos of the writers as teenagersand#8212;in all their goofy, once-trendy, clumsy glory; that is to sayand#8212;in all their beautiful, open, hopeful, eager embraces of the life they hope to grow into." and#8212; ForeWord Reviews
Synopsis
When Emily Lindin was eleven years old, she was branded a andldquo;slutandrdquo; by the rest of her classmates. For the next few years of her life, she was bullied incessantly at school, after school, and online. At the time, Emily didnand#39;t feel comfortable confiding in her parents or in the other adults her my life. But she did keep a diary. Slut/UnSlut is adapted from Emilyandrsquo;s much-acclaimed blog andldquo;The UnSlut Projectandrdquo; presenting unaltered excerpts from that diary alongside split-page commentary to provide context and perspective.
About the Author
Emily Lindin is a Harvard graduate, PhD candidate, and suicide prevention activist living in Southern California. The UnSlut Project was inspired by her own experience. When she was eleven years old, she was branded a andldquo;slutandrdquo; by her classmates and was bullied at school, after school, and online. During all this, she kept a regular diary. The UnSlut Project began when Emily, as an adult, chose to publish her own middle school diaries online in response to learning about the suicides of several teen girls who had experienced similar slut shaming and bullying, and a strong desire to reach out to others who still suffer such abuse. Her diaries have been read by hundreds of thousands of people and have brought much attention to the practice of slut shaming and the harassment of young women. Now, the project has expanded to include the collected stories of many women who suffered slut shaming and sexual bullying, but have overcome it in various ways. In 2015, the project explands to include a book, UnSlut, written by Emily Lindin and published by Zest Books, as well as a documentary film. Emily has appeared on dozens of TV and radio shows including andquot;The Katie Showandquot; with Katie Couric, and was recently named as one of Glamour magazineand#39;s andquot;Heroes of the Week.andquot;