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Author Burningham, Sarah O'Leary.

Title How to raise your parents : a teen girl's survival guide / by Sarah O'Leary Burningham ; illustrations by Bella Pilar.

Imprint San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  646.7 BURNINGHAM    ---  Available
Description 144 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Note Includes index.
Contents Parents should come with instruction booklets -- Parent profiles -- Let's get together : the art of negotiation -- Leave me alone : how to get some privacy -- Planet teen : hip hop, hanging out, and your entourage -- The essentials of declaring independence : piercings, tattoos, and hair dye -- When the clock strikes : curfews -- High school hell : bad grades and other scholastic scrapes -- The road to freedom : your driver's license -- Work it : after school jobs, allowances, and earning money -- Cyber-life -- Parentspeak : decoding your parent's catch phrases.
Indexed In: Publisher's Weekly, May 2008
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2008
Summary Offers teenage girls and their parents practical advice on how they can cope with the ups and downs of the teenage years and develop good communication methods that will strengthen the parent-child relationship.
Audience Young Adult Follett Library Resources
Subject Parent-child relationship.
Girls -- United States -- Attitudes.
Teenagers -- United States -- Attitudes.
Teenagers -- Conduct of life.
Teenagers -- Life skills guides.
Family.
ISBN 0811856968

 
    
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