![]() ![]() It features true stories of the teenage years of some of Australia’s top female writers, women who’ve battled everything from first crushes and lust to drugs, racism and sexual abuse. This book is for every woman who has been a teenager or is one now. The choices you make during adolescence can set the path for the rest of your life. It’s also one of the most crucial times for a girl, when she starts to decide who she is and what she wants. #Molly messengier wandering willows friendship fullThey’re actually the toughest years and the most confusing.Your body starts to change, friends are hard-won, your loins are full of longing but your head is not, and you’re no longer sure if your parents really do know best. But try finding someone who really thinks that’s so. Preface Everyone tells you that your teenage years are the best years of your life. Vii ix 1 7 12 17 22 27 35 40 47 53 62 72 77 86 92 102 108 113 120įootball Groupie Libby-Jane Charleston The Island of Lost Souls Kathy Buchanan Finding My Voice Melinda Hutchings ‘The Boxer’ Brigid Delaney Nude Photo Jo Dutton Straight A’s to Double D’s Kathryn Eisman Choosing Life Gabrielle Lord My Glorious Teens Kelly Foulkes The Power of Two Sue Williams My After-Formal Party Lucy Lehmann Who’s the New Girl? Rebecca Huntley The Imaginary Life of Lucy Patti Miller August the 27th Tobsha Learner ‘Dear Jacinta’ Jacinta Tynan Humiliation and Lust Leigh Redhead Starting Fresh Maggie Hamilton Tenants Heather Rose Poor Alice Jill Morris Fire and Ice Lyn McPherson The Waiting Room Debra Oswald The Marks of Memory Tara June Winch Confessions of a Drama Queen Bianca Dye Fitting In Di Morrissey There’s Light in the Darkness of Mental Illness Jessica Rowe First Love Vanessa Gorman A Black and White Picture Belinda Alexandra Argentina Sarah Armstrong Old School Ties Lisa Wilkinson The Magic of Dance Cindy Pan I Was a Teenage Misfit Kim Wilkins Summer Lovin’ Tara Moss To. 820.90352422 Internal design by Christa Moffitt Set in 12/15.5 pt Bembo by Midland Typesetters, Australia Printed and bound in Australia by Griffin Press 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Ĭontents Preface Jacinta Tynan Acknowledgements Boobs Kathy Lette The Life Lessons of Littlewing Bessie Bardot A Distance of a Thousand Miles Nikki Gemmell Still Stillness Kate Holden The Message Larissa Behrendt One Sunday Afternoon Cecilia Inglis Dirty Stopout Clare Press Always First Never Lasts Rachael Oakes-Ash Rebels With a Cause Eva Cox The Pirate of Paradise Waters Kate Morton The Language of the Dead Antonella Gambotto-Burke Lock Up Your Sons Emily Maguire Nudist Nights Robbi Neal The Group Liane Moriarty Death to Disco Jessica Adams The Bush Doctrine Lisa Pryor The Adolescent Detective Diane Armstrong New School Sofie Laguna This Much I Know. Arena Books, an imprint of Allen & Unwin 83 Alexander Street Crows Nest NSW 2065 Australia Phone: (61 2) 8425 0100 Fax: (61 2) 9906 2218 Email: Web: National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Some girls do: my life as a teenager. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.The Australian Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) allows a maximum of one chapter or 10 per cent of this book, whichever is the greater, to be photocopied by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided that the educational institution (or body that administers it) has given a remuneration notice to Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) under the Act. ![]() My life as a teenager Edited byįirst published in 2007 Copyright © Allen and Unwin 2007 Stories are copyright of individual authors All rights reserved. ![]()
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