It Will Get Better: Finding Your Way Through Teen Issues

Teenagers offer firsthand accounts of the challenges they have faced in this wide-ranging guide that addresses such subjects as physical and emotional abuse, eating disorders, drugs and alcoholism, bullying, and death. The narrative rotates among several teens, whose stories can be quite dark (one teen turns to cutting after being sexually abused; another's father and stepfather both committed suicide). While the book doesn't sidestep the realities of these and other situations, the profiles emphasize coping, recovery, and moving forward. Although the resources, help lines, and Web sites provided throughout are aimed at the book's original Australian audience, readers will likely empathize and see parts of themselves in the teens who share their stories and struggles, as well as find value in the advice. Ages 12%E2%80%93up. (July)