Complete Idiot's Guide to Friendship for Teens [School & Library Binding]

Ericka Lutz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2001

"This bok can help you choose, make, and keep friends. It gives you hands-on tools and techniques for making new friends and improving the friendships you already have."

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From the Back Cover

The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Friendship for Teens is a jam-packed resource to making friends, being a good friend, and being a friend to yourself-specifically geared for teens! You'll learn about choosing friends -- different friends for the different sides of you, friendship skills to help you keep the friends you have, and how to overcome friendship's complications. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Ericka Lutz has a lot of friends. When she's not hanging out or talking with them on the phone, she's the author of five other nonfiction books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Looking Great for Teens and Baby Maneuvers. Her feature articles, advice columns, personal essays, book reviews, and short fiction appear regularly in books, annual anthologies, journals, periodicals, and on Web sites. She lives in Oakland, California, and teaches writing to MBA students at the University of California, Berkeley. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• School & Library Binding
• Publisher: San Val (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0613954017
• ISBN-13: 978-0613954013
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,109,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ericka Lutz's novel, The Edge of Maybe, is available from Last Light Studio books in 2012.

She is the author of seven non-fiction books including On the Go with Baby: A Stress-Free Guide to Getting Across Town or Around The World, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Stepparenting, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Looking Great for Teens (translated into Polish) and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Friendship for Teens (translated into Portuguese).

Ericka is a two-time recipient of a fiction fellowship at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her award-winning short stories and personal essays have appeared in books, anthologies, and journals, and her articles, book reviews and advice columns have appeared nationally in magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. She was a founding editor and wrote a popular monthly columns, "Red Diaper Dharma" and "Solo," at the online literary magazine Literary Mama.

She has been interviewed on over 40 radio shows including "The Parent's Journal" on NPR and has been a featured guest on KRON-TV and KGO (ABC) in San Francisco.

Since 1998, Ericka has been on the professional faculty at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, where she teaches writing, speaking, and business communication. Since 1992 she's edited and consulted with writers about their writing and the writing process. She also teaches fiction writing and public speaking for U.C. Berkeley Extension

Ericka enjoys solo performance, travel, dogs, flying in small planes (as a passenger), hiking, gardening, and hanging out with large zoo animals.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's hard being a teen, March 13, 2002

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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Friendship for Teens (Paperback)

Unfortunately, it isn't always easy being a teenager -- especially a teen-age girl -- and friendships are often tricky, especially in the middle-school years. I bought this book and Complete Idiot's Guide to Surviving Peer Pressure for Teens for my daughter, and she's read them both cover to cover. The authors of both books got my daughter -- and me! -- through some difficult moments. Highly recommended!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Might be a good read for teens, February 25, 2011

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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Friendship for Teens (Paperback)

I think this book was written for teens to read, not as a resource for parents. As the parent of a daughter who has problems making and maintaining friends, this book was not what I was looking for. It doesn't get into the skills needed to make friends, the "hows" of making friends, the body language, and the reasons a teen may have difficulty with friendship and what to do about it all. The book is very light, and optomistic and is written in language that teens will relate to. I think it would serve as a reminder of what friendship is all about to a teen going through a tough time, but not necessarily one with chronic problems.