Presenting a series of typical dialogues between parents and teens, two teenagers reveal the underlying messages that can affect family communication and dynamics, decoding the secret language of adolescence to build a new bridge between parent and child while dealing with such issues as money, privacy, drugs, siblings, and academic pressure. Original.
Lara Fox is the pseudonym for a published author living in the UK. A runner-up in the Lit Idol competition in 2005, this author has published one other teenage title and is currently working on the follow up to My Year in Agony - again featuring Miss Understanding as a beleaguered publishing intern who enthralls her blog readers with the inside scoop on publishing ...