Teenage groups can offer protection, but they can also enforce exclusion.
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Coming of Age
Lucy Faulks (Bodley Head (UK), Vintage Digital (US))
In teen movies Mean GirlsThe protagonist, Cady Heron, grows up in Africa and enrolls in an American high school. Though she feels intimidated by her peers and social hierarchies, she approaches things the way her zoologist parents did: documenting the people around her as if they were animals on the savanna.
In her new book, Adulthood: How adolescence shapes usPsychologist Lucy Foulkes takes a similar approach to deciphering the adolescent rulebook.
Source: www.newscientist.com
