In My Room: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms

By Adrienne Salinger

From the publisher: "As a haven from what is often the most painful and tumultuous period in a young person's life, the bedroom may be the only place teenagers can truly express themselves. Few... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811807967
• ISBN13: 9780811807968
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

haunting and poignant

I checked out this book from my local library when I was a high school senior and loved it. I read it again, at age 30, and it was just as good if not better. Amazing photos and stories. So well done, it's like the best documentary you've ever seen...in book form!

From the mouth of one of the kids in the book.

I reread the book quite often. When the book came out I was in college so it was weird to see what I had said over 3 years before. It was also interesting to learn things about my friends that (most of the kids in the book i went to high school w/) i never knew. It made me understand them more. I knew Jono from the 6th grade on and he was one of my closest friends, but I never knew he did not know his heritage. I probably should not tell you who I am, so I will give you a hint: I went to Winston-Salem St. U. BUY THE BOOK & give it to your kids. They will see they are not alone. By the way, I am a teacher now.

great for teenagers and their parents

This book gives a variety of stories of kids their brief history of why their room is like it is.It's like being a fly on the wall.In the sometimes confusing time of being a teenager you realize you are not alone.

Original and Creative

"My Room : Teenagers in Their Bedrooms" was a very interesting book. Looking at each teen in their room, looking at the individuals themselves, I would often judge them, as most people judge others in real life. However, quite often, my judgments were wrong: a clean looking teen would turn out to be a recovering drug addict, another teen whiched looked as if he was an atheist, actually was an active church goer, and so on, and so on. The book teaches a good lesson not to judge people by the way they appear, but by their actions, and state of mind. It had some pretty cool pictures, and the book also told of what happened to each teen later in life. Good readin'. Check it out.

Pulitzer Passover

This book blends many things to form a great book from cover to cover. It is part Catcher in the Rye with pictures, part adolescent psychology text, and part high school year book...all rolled into one. This is on my VERY short list of books I reccommend. Buy this book!!!