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Article: Teenage wasteland? (early adolescence)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- October 23, 1995
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Leslie Flowers's 13th year was filled with disappointment, change and tumult--all the messiness that makes early adolescence such a dreaded time of life. But Flowers had a blast. For sure, moving to California last November to get to know her adored, divorced dad didn't work out. He was gone a lot; she trimmed the Christmas tree by herself. School was dull, and, yeah, it freaked her out that along with fire drills they practiced drive-by-shooting drills in suburban Los Angeles. She missed her mom and older sister, too. So when she moved back to Pennsylvania, she in effect was starting eighth grade again for the third time in four months. But there, she had seven great ...