We tell ourselves stories in order to live, but teens read stories in order to imagine things like death, sex, and trouble. At age 15 I found all three in a Judy Blume book called, “Tiger Eyes” that rocked me to my core. So strong was my identification with the protagonist, Davey, a teenage girl who is close to her father and fantasizes about being a pr…
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