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Dear Teen Me

October 15, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: Dear Teen Me edited by E. Kristin Anderson and Miranda Kenneally

Every once in a while you come across an idea so genius you wish you had thought of it.  One of those ideas is Dear Teen Me.  Dear Teen Me began as a website and is now a book published by Zest Books.  In Dear Teen Me, an eclectic variety of teen authors have written […]

October 15, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Dear Teen Me with Christie G

Today as part of the Dear Teen Me blog tour, Christie G writes a letter to her teenage self.  Dear Teen Me: author write letters to their teen sevles edited by E. Kristin Anderson and Miranda Kenneally.  Dear Teen Me is published by Zest Books (ISBN: 978-1-9369762-1-8).  Read my review here. Dear Teen Me, Reading, […]

October 15, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Dear Teen Me: De Ja Vu with Karen J

Dear Teen Me, The phone is ringing and you know that Curtis is calling to tell you that she died.  It is never good news when someone calls this early in the morning.  There are rules about that it seems. For some reason, the two worst events in your life appear to have happened in […]

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