TEEN ANGST? NAAAH...
Ned Vizzini, . . Dell/Laurel-Leaf, $5.50 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-440-23767-9
Of this autobiographical account of coming of age as a teenager in New York City,
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Reviewed on: 09/02/2002
Genre: Children's
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