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YATeen 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.