A review by shanyreader
Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves by E. Kristin Anderson, Miranda Kenneally

5.0

As a teenager reading this, I can actually relate to this book a lot. The obsessive worrying about weight, and how I look, and whether or not this boy likes me, etc. And while the majority of the stories were about topics like that (some of which were very light-hearted and others which were very serious), you had a few oddballs like driving a drunk girl home, or thanking oneself for choosing to live, or thinking back to how awesome Prom night was, even though you weren't at Prom--so there's a lot of variety. But altogether, I thought this was a very good representation of what it is to be a teenager. I enjoyed the way the authors wrote because you could tell they were really talking to their teen selves from an older perspective, with a lot of love and support and acceptance and just, it was full of emotion. Sometimes teenagers feel like they're alone and life will always suck until the end of time and they'll never be able to love themselves, but this book really tries to tell teens that that's not true. There are good people out there, there are people who you might not think you like now but who you will be best friends with later, like a parent or sibling, and overall, things will be okay one day. There's always gonna be a rainbow after the storm.

I recommend this book to any teenager really, because as the book advertises itself, it's not just for the popular kids or the nerds or anything--each author is special and you will find yourself relating to a wide spectrum of them. Also, they had teenage pictures of all the authors after their individual letters which is so COOL! Plus, it had some authors whose books I've read, so that was Double Cool!! :D