13 is the new 18 and other things my children taught me (while I was having a nervous breakdown being their mother)
Thirteen is the new eighteen
Beth J. Harpaz.
- 1st ed.
- New York Crown Publishers c2009.
- 271 p. 22 cm.
Contents: Unjumpable son Are we there yet? Your boxers are showing Consulting the experts Another call from school The eighth-grade prom Contraband The mysteries of girls Epiphanies The secret lives of teenagers Getting to know you Good-bye thirteen, hello fourteen, hello hope Meditations on the past and future
A humorous chronicle of her son's thirteenth year details the author's desperate attempts to explain--and cope with--the enigmatic ways of an adolescent boy, from his likes and dislikes to his downward spiral of bad grades, secrecy, and rebellion