The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens

by Malina Saval

Book Overview

Teenage boys have come a long way since the staid 1980s when they were all lumped into the Breakfast Club categories of Brains, Druggies, and Jocks. Crisscrossing the country -- meeting with boys from different cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds -- journalist Malina Saval introduces readers to the next generation of male teens by creating new archetypes and redrawing the ever-expanding social map. The Secret Lives of Boys offers an uncensored look into boyhood that reveals the spine-tingling confessions, heartrending sadness and isolation, unbridled optimism, and seemingly boundless resilience of male teens today. Saval asks the pertinent questions: Who are these boys? What do they think of themselves? A compelling and candid look at male adolescence in the twenty-first century, The Secret Lives of Boys uncovers what our young people want you to know.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465020321
• ISBN13: 9780465020324
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher