A tribe apart
Subtitle: a journey into the heart of American adolescence
By: Patricia Hersch
Edition: 1st trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780345435941; 9780613177559
Subjects: Teenagers
Notes: "Featuring a Ballantine reader's companion"--Cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the paperback edition --; title: Prologue : alone --; title: On the brink --; title: Speaking out/acting out --; title: High school is for making memories --; title: The negative is positive --; title: Honor and other relative things --; title: The school paper and a whole new adolescent world --; title: Out of the whirlwind and on to the playing field --; title: A circle of friends : it's not peer pressure, it's the adolescent way of life --; title: Graffiti, God, and other meaningful things --; title: Sex : let's get it out of the way, but don't look at me naked --; title: Lacrosse and other challenges --; title: Taking care of each other and other grown-up preoccupations --; title: Moshing is a way to belong --; title: Shedding light on darkness : school is an uncomfortable place to learn --; title: Rearrange your room when you can't arrange yourself --; title: The dilemmas of a fourteen-year-old girl : contradictions as a way of life --; title: Creating my own space : the long cold winter and descent into darkness --; title: Broken promises : theirs and ours --; title: Doing high school the old-fashioned way --; title: It's my prom, my life --; title: Resignation : adolescence is sometimes a life-or-death issue --; title: The great unknown lies ahead : to the wilderness or to college --; title: Epilogue : a warm embrace.