Straight Talk about Drinking: Teenagers Speak Out About Alcohol - Softcover

Coffey, Wayne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452260612 ISBN 13: 9780452260610

Publisher: Plume, 1988

Synopsis

Explains how alcohol effects the human body and shares the experiences and observations of teenagers concerning drinking, peer pressure, parents, alcoholism, and drunk driving

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 7-12 Coffey, who wrote When Your Parent Drinks Too Much: a Book for Teenagers (Facts on File, 1985) under the pseudonym Eric Ryerson, hopes to convey to readers that the decision to drink or not to drink alcohol should be a careful, informed one. The voices of 50 teens, while sometimes repetitive, talk about the subject in terms that directly relate to their livesglamorization by media; peer pressure; feeling sick and out of control; parental attitudes; myths related to drinking; drinking and driving; and how to get help for a parent, friend, or self. The information is realisticnot all drinking is badbut cautious. There are no illustrations, nor is there an index. Susan and Daniel Cohen in A Six Pack and a Fake I.D. (Evans, 1986) use the same technique but give more historical and medical information. Alcohol: Uses and Abuses (Enslow, 1988) by Margaret O. Hyde also treats the subject more thoroughly and technically, but in a less personable fashion. Martha Gordon, South Salem Lib . , N.Y.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0452260612
• ISBN 13: 9780452260610
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 18