How to Ruin My Teenage Life

By Simone Elkeles

Subjects: Identity, fiction, Father-daughter relationship, Fathers and daughters, Families, Identity, Jews, fiction, Family, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Interpersonal relations, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Children's fiction, Israelis, Jews, united states, fiction, School stories, Individuality, United states, fiction, Identity (Psychology), Jews, Adolescence, fiction, Schools, Interpersonal relations, fiction, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / New Experience

Description: Living with her Israeli father in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Amy Nelson-Barak feels like a walking disaster, worried about her "non-boyfriend" in the Israeli army, her mother, new stepfather, and the baby they are expecting, a new boy named Nathan who has moved into her apartment building and goes to her school, and whether or not she really is the selfish snob that Nathan says she is.