Title: How to Ruin My Teenage Life
Description: Living with her Israeli father in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Amy Nelson-Barak feels like a walking disaster, worried about her "non-boyfriend" in the Israeli army, her mother, new stepfather, and the baby they are expecting, a new boy named Nathan who has moved into her apartment building and goes to her school, and whether or not she really is the selfish snob that Nathan says she is.
Subjects: Fiction, Jews, Interpersonal relations, Fathers and daughters, Israelis, Schools, Identity, Family, Identity, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Schools, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Jews, fiction, Adolescence, fiction, Children's fiction, Jews, united states, fiction, United states, fiction, Families, School stories, Individuality, Identity (Psychology), Father-daughter relationship, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / New Experience, Juvenile fiction
Places: United States, Chicago (Ill.)