(4) YA Teen Issues series. This look at teens and sex covers predictable but essential ground, including puberty, deciding when to become sexually active, STDs, parenthood, homosexuality, and sexual violence. Pages are overrun with sidebars, keyword definitions, graphics, thought and dialogue balloons, and posed photos of good-looking style-conscious teens, but the content is consistently sound and the gently cautionary tone just right. Directory, reading list. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) YA Teen Issues series. These books devoted to three common addictive substances aren't scolds: the authors show compassion for affected teens, especially in sections describing social and cultural pressures that foster addictions. Unfortunately, the layouts, which bombard the reader with sidebars, keyword definitions, graphics, thought and dialogue balloons, and photos of adolescents ostensibly grappling with addiction, seem like a bad trip. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Teen Issues titles: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) YA Teen Issues series. These books devoted to three common addictive substances aren't scolds: the authors show compassion for affected teens, especially in sections describing social and cultural pressures that foster addictions. Unfortunately, the layouts, which bombard the reader with sidebars, keyword definitions, graphics, thought and dialogue balloons, and photos of adolescents ostensibly grappling with addiction, seem like a bad trip. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Teen Issues titles: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs.

Reviewer: Nell Beram