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No Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices, is a compilation of short stories written by young adult authors about many of the hard decisions teens have to make throughout their adolescence. The book is split up into six categories: How Did I Get Myself into This?, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, What Do I Do Now?, How Do I Get Myself Out of This, and I'm Sorry.
As a whole I thought this was a pretty good read. Some of the stories didn't r
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No Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices, is a compilation of short stories written by young adult authors about many of the hard decisions teens have to make throughout their adolescence. The book is split up into six categories: How Did I Get Myself into This?, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, What Do I Do Now?, How Do I Get Myself Out of This, and I'm Sorry.
As a whole I thought this was a pretty good read. Some of the stories didn't really interest me or seem a little irrelevant or far-fetched. I did enjoy the opportunity to read small pieces of work from a variety of different authors. While I think this could be a helpful book for teens, I think it would take a teen who is mature to appreciate what the book is trying to teach.
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Do certain teens have different mindsets than other kids? When reading No Easy Answers one should expect to read about kids making dumb decisions, kids from bad backgrounds, and kids not knowing from good or bad. This book is like reading from a teens perspective and how a kid from a poor, dangerous, neighborhood would handle things differently than a kid from a white suburban neighborhood. X-15's is a gang from a dangerous neighborhood in New York that states to have their member's back. In th
Do certain teens have different mindsets than other kids? When reading No Easy Answers one should expect to read about kids making dumb decisions, kids from bad backgrounds, and kids not knowing from good or bad. This book is like reading from a teens perspective and how a kid from a poor, dangerous, neighborhood would handle things differently than a kid from a white suburban neighborhood. X-15's is a gang from a dangerous neighborhood in New York that states to have their member's back. In the story a kid from a good, wealthy neighborhood wants to join the gang only because he thinks the idea of having someone's back when they have his is cool. Soon after he realizes that means that he would have to kill for them as well which he does not take well, It is shown in the story when during the initiation he has to kill his own cat which he can't bring himself to do.
The main topic of this book is about moral standards and the strengths of character in a teenager when they find themselves in a tough situation. Especially when finding out how to deal with the consequences of their actions and what it means to do the right thing. In the short story The Photograph a boy finds out about a teacher skinny dipping so him and another student decides to go to her house and take pictures of her. Then after when trying to hide the photo it gets leaked and he doesn't know what to do and how to fix what he did. "I just hoped that… things worked out for her. I mean, wherever she went." (21). Some of the characters I think of as the type of people who want to fit in and not be an outcast. Which are both shown in both stories when in X-15 he tries to join the gang because he thinks it'll be a chance to make friends and having each other's backs when it's something more serious and in The Photograph he takes to the picture to try to prove to all the athletes that what he saw was true. Some things I do have questions about are, how did he come up with these scenarios? Did they actually happen? Did he experience them? An important message I feel that what he's trying to explain in the short stories is that you should always try to have a good character and face your consequences head on instead of being afraid of them.
The author uses certain words to explain the story, such examples are when the author says in The Photograph "Lance muttered, peeling away his sweaty football jersey over his head, it was humid September afternoon in the locker room". He uses humid to describe what the day felt like, and sweaty to describe the football jersey. In the beginning of the story he catches the reader's attention by saying "Naked?" "Yes." "Ms. Jenson? Our beloved phys ed teacher and girls' track coach?". The author also uses specific words in other stories such as in X-15 he describes the outfit the gang wears " Black pointy-toed shoes, Beige Levi's, and a black V-neck T-shirt.". The book has a unique way of telling the stories. It's different stories in chapters, the chapters are the main point and the stories in the chapters explain the main point.
In conclusion he is a very good writer and knows what words to use and when to use them in a sentence. ...more
I liked the book because the plot of the boo
In the first short story "The Photograph" is about a couple of teens who plays in their football team was talking about their phys ed teacher Ms. Jenson skinny dipping. The teens goes for a look see to find out if it was true or not. What they found was something way more better than skinny dipping. A photo was shot by what ever the teens had saw. Now what will they do with the photo and what they saw? You need to find out by reading No Easy Answers.I liked the book because the plot of the book was mysterious wanting you to read more and know what will happen next and how it will end, like for an example, "The Photograph." I wanted to know what the teens was going to see when they went to spy on their teacher Ms. Jenson and what they was going to do with the photo after they took it and what would happen to Ms. Jenson. Also it was exciting to know what happened next but it sometimes will be sad to know what happened but sometimes humorous. The book was humorous cause some of it was just teens doing dumb stuff by accident, it is not that bad of dumb stuff just a little mix up.
I would like to recommend this book to the teenagers who has had struggles in their life to read this book. It will let them know that they are not alone choosing hard choices.
...more I liked these short stories. I can not relate to them but they are still things that happen to people in real life and this book shows how people could deal with those situations. This book is about the way that these situations test the character of the fictional teens. I got to thinking how I would handle these situations and honestly I don't know.
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Happy Reading,
Louie
It gave descriptions of the two methods he tried using.Although the cat ultimately survived, I found it very disturbing.
It was not something I would have read or bought if I had known such a story was included.
There was no warning of any kind about this disturbing material and I found that to be very inappropriate as it is mostly teenagers I was enjoying the stories in this book until near the end, I came across a horrible story of a boy trying to kill his own cat so he can be admitted to a gang.
It gave descriptions of the two methods he tried using.Although the cat ultimately survived, I found it very disturbing.
It was not something I would have read or bought if I had known such a story was included.
There was no warning of any kind about this disturbing material and I found that to be very inappropriate as it is mostly teenagers who will be reading this book. ...more
Although they were on drugs, abusive relationship or being in the wrong crowd, these teens still found a way to overcome their challenges or problems.
With more than a dozen anthologies to his credit, Don Gallo has garnered a reputation as the godfather of YA short stories. He was initially drawn to the genre back in 1980, when he realized that junior and senior high schools across the country taught required units on short stories, but that virtually none of the stories students were asked to read were by authors who wrote specifically for teenagers. His first, ground-breaking anthology of YA short stories, SIXTEEN, featuring some of the top authors in the field, was recognized by the American Library Association as one of the 100 Best Books for Young Adults published between 1966 and 1999. Since then, Don Gallo has edited a number of short story anthologies for teens, including the highly regarded FIRST CROSSING and WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?. Among the numerous awards he has received is the ALAN Award for Outstanding Contributions to Young Adult Literature.
A former junior high school teacher and university professor of English, Don Gallo currently spends his time as an editor, author, workshop presenter, and interviewer of famous authors. He also likes to read, travel, garden, cook, and take photographs. The father of two, he lives with his wife in Solon, Ohio.
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