Title: Teenage Diary
Product review: I am a parent, and read this book recently because it is on the assigned reading list for freshmen at the local public high school. The best thing I can say about the book is that it is very short and can be read in a few hours. Essentially, it takes the form of a diary/journal of a young teenage Hispanic girl in a poverty-sticken section of Chicago. The author obviously has a feminist viewpoint. I will concede that the author is capable of a poetic turn of phrase, but overall the book is not well-written and could not possibly have been assigned in a Literature course as an example of high-quality writing. Instead, it apparently was selected by people who agree with the sociological opinions of the author, and who feel that those should be foisted onto the ninth-graders.
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