SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR PARENTS WITH TEEN 2015-16 Updated September 2015
Hello Parents! Welcome to the roller coaster ride of living with adolescents! Over the past 28years of my experience teaching adolescents, I have compiled this list of books. I have read many of the books on this list and have found them informative and helpful, both in my teaching career and in my world of parenting my own teens.
The books are in no special order of preference. Some are more specialized than others on certain topics. All have wonderful, insightful, information. If you would like my own personal recommendation of which titles to read first, please see the end of this list.
Thanks and Happy Reading! Karen Green, 7th grade Science
**1. Get Out of My Life, but first could you take me and Cheryl to the mall? By Anthony Wolf, Ph.D. (More current title by this author is near the end of this list)
2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, by Sean Covey
**3. Parenting the Teenager, by Carl Pickhardt
4. The Wonder of Boys and A Fine Young Man, both by Michael Gurian
**5. Sense and Sensibility: The Thinking Parents Guide to Talking Sense about Sex, by Deborah Roffman
**6. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls, and What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys, both by Lynda Madaras
7. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
8. Too Much of a Good Thing, by Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.
9. Cliques: 8 steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle,by Charlene C. Giannetti and Margaret Sagarese
10. Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Physician Tells You What You Need to Know, by Lisa Marr, M.D.
11. Odd Girl Out, by Rachel Simmons
12. Easing the Teasing, by Judy Freedman
13. Closing the Gap, by Jay McGraw
14. The Teen Health Book, by Ralph Lopez
**15. The Primal Teen, by Barbara Strauch
16. Laying Down the Law, by Dr. Ruth Peters
17. Beyond the Big Talk by Debra Haffner
18. Raising a Responsible child: How parents can avoid indulging too much and rescuing too often by Elizabeth Ellis
19. Be a parent, not a pushover by Maryanne Rosenthal
20. Yes, your teen is crazy by Michael Bradley
21. The 2nd Family by Ron Taffel
22. What are they thinking?! The straight facts about the risk-taking, social-networking, still-developing Teen Brain by Aaron M. Whit, Ph.D and Scott Swartzwelder, Ph.D
23. I’d listen to my parents if they’d just shut up: What to say and not say when parentingteens by Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D.
**24.How children succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, by Paul Tough
25. Third base ain’t what it used to be by Dr. Logan Levkoff
26. You are not special by Dr. David McCullough, Jr.
27. The Teenage Brain by Frances E. Jensen
28. How to Raise and Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims
PARENTS,
It is difficult to narrow this list down to a few books, but here are my top six favorites of ones from this list that I have read.
#1, #5, #6, #14, #15, #24, #27, #28 (#6 is actually two books, one for males, one for females)
9/7/14: Currently reading #26.
I’ve read over half of these books and have scanned and/or read parts of most of all the rest on the list. And, if you’ve not read How to Survive Middle School, a short piece written by Melissa Cooper, one of Murchison’s best, please be sure to read it. It is posted on my website as well.