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Be True to Your School

Today, Bob Greene is a celebrated, nationally-syndicated columnist. In 1964, he was a seventeen-year-old Ohio high school kid. And he kept a diary.

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It's all here. The teenage girl who got away. The twenty-seven-year-old woman who didn't. The first beer. The first job. A series of bad haircuts. Friendship and betrayal, griping and groping, a daily account of one boy's struggle — and all of our struggles — to forge his way into adulthood with dignity intact, virginity a bad memory, and the day-to-day knowledge that it's not going to get any easier.

"A delightful book, and like the song Greene cruised to that summer, fun, fun, fun." — Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Everyone who was ever seventeen will love it!" — Ann Landers

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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