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Too Young for Hunger Games?
Welcome to another installment of Healthy Teen Tips Friday! PJ Sharon here, and I have a question for all you tweens, teens, and parents out there. How young is too young for Hunger Games? I saw the...
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Challenging Authority Figures
A few years back in the small community I grew up in, there were some ‘issues’ at our local high school. Apparently there was a fight between two girls and some say drugs were involved. A female...
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Secrets: how they reach deep inside to leave lasting scars
Growing up I devoured fantasy and science fiction books but the one book that stayed with me the most was something I read in grade 4, The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. That book seemed...
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The year Indie authors took control of their creative art.
This blog post was recently featured on indiewritersreview but I thought I’d share it again. For me that was 2011. When I wrote Off Leash it finalled in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest but still...
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TMI
TOO MUCH INFORMATION. While we know online sexting and bulling is a huge problem, there is another problem that we all need to be aware of and that is oversharing. Have you checked out a teen’s...
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This Needs to Change
Over the weekend, I saw something on Facebook that really got me thinking. It was a picture of a teenage girl holding up a sign that read (I’m paraphrasing slightly): “I need feminism because society...
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Teen-ish Teenagers- One
Over the next few weeks, my brain permitting, I’m going to be writing about teenagers. How they think, how they act, how they sound. Not that I’m a complete expert, but I do know a bit, and I have a...
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Teen-ish Teenagers- Two
A couple weeks ago, I talked about how I’ve seen several books lately that, while called “Young Adult books”, have teenage characters who sound nothing like the teenagers I know–or the teenager I once...
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Why you should never BULLY anyone!
Bullying is wrong and immoral. Period. But this picture made me smile and had me thinking of another reason not to bully. ENJOY!
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School in YA Fiction
One of the things that defines the lives of some teens is school. That’s where they interact with their peers. Where they may be bullied, or they may be the bully. Where they learn to get along with...
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