Patricia Hersch

#adolescence #middleschool #high-school #teenager #teen culture #education

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence

For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston, Virginia, listening to their stories, observing their rituals, watching them fulfill their dreams and enact their tragedies. What she found was that America's teens have fashioned a fully defined culture that adults neither see nor imagine--a culture of unprecedented freedom and baffling complexity, a culture with rules but no structure, values but no clear morality, codes but no consistency.

Is it society itself that has created this separate teen community? Resigned to the attitude that adolescents simply live in "a tribe apart," adults have pulled away, relinquishing responsibility and supervision, allowing the unhealthy behaviors of teens to flourish. Ultimately, this rift between adults and teenagers robs both generations of meaningful connections. For everyone's world is made richer and more challenging by having adolescents in it.

A Tribe Apart

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Arizona

A fee marks along page sides. Pages yellowed from age.

Pennsylvania

Reader's circle award winning book looking into the teen years

Illinois

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Minnesota

A former contributing editor to Psychology Today magazine draws on her three years of observation and conversation with a group of teenagers from a common American town to portray today's adolescents as a society unto themselves.

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For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed into a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture - the world of adolescence.

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A Tribe Apart