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    Seventeen's Shocking True Teen Stories
    Seventeen's Shocking True Teen Stories
    Seventeen's Shocking True Teen Stories
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    Seventeen's Shocking True Teen Stories

    By Seventeen

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    A collection of suspenseful, dramatic—and true—stories by the teenage girls who experienced them.

    Prepare to be blown away! Shocking True Teen Stories collects some of the most amazing and unbelievable reader stories ever printed in the pages of Seventeen magazine. One girl, for instance, reveals how she lost both her best friends to drug overdoses. A shoplifter confesses that she couldn’t stop stealing, while another reader shares how she was secretly homeless for years. In all, twelve brave teens share the gritty details in their own words, so you can learn from their experiences.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHearst Corporation
    Release dateJun 5, 2012
    ISBN9781453259023
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      Seventeen's Shocking True Teen Stories - Seventeen

      Shocking True Teen Stories

      From the Editors of Seventeen

      Contents

      A Tornado Destroyed My House—While I Was in It!

      Both of My BFFs OD’d on Heroin!

      I Was Charged with Sexual Assault…of My Boyfriend!

      I Was Forced to Pose Nude Online!

      I Couldn’t Stop Shoplifting!

      My Dad Tried to Destroy My Business!

      I Was Homeless and No One Knew!

      I Sacrificed Everything for Ballet!

      I Thought a Nose Job Would Stop the Bullying!

      My Coach Secretly Filmed Me Naked!

      My Nude Pics Got Me Kicked Off Cheerleading!

      Could These Be the Meanest Girls in America?

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      Inspiring True Teen Stories

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      Terrifying True Teen Stories

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      A Tornado Destroyed My House—While I Was in It!

      We’ve all been glued to the news about wild weather. But when a tornado hit Brooke, 18, it was all she could to hang on for her life.

      As told to: Jane Bianchi

      Just like other schools have fire drills, I’d always had regular tornado drills at my school in Town Creek, Alabama. Teachers would make us ball up into the fetal position against hallway walls and put books over our heads. That way, if the ceiling caved in, we’d be more protected. But I giggled through them all. It seemed so silly to prepare for a major storm when I’d never known anyone who experienced one. At home, my parents told me sternly over and over that if a tornado came our way, I should run to the bathroom. That was the one room that had no windows that could shatter, and it was in the middle of the house—the sturdiest part. So I always knew it was possible for a tornado to hit my town, but what were the chances of it actually happening?

      STORMY WEATHER

      The sky looked so weird on April 27. Some parts were clear while others were filled with dark rain clouds. And the clouds were moving super-fast in all different directions. Weather reports were predicting hail, and I was psyched—that meant no school! I curled up on the living room couch with a book as my mom folded clothes, my grandma napped, my little brother took a bath, and my three sisters played Nintendo DS and doodled. At 4 P.M., my sister Amber’s fiancé, Zac, who was relaxing on the lawn, hollered for my mom to come outside. As they came back in a minute later, my mom said in an I-mean-business tone, Bathroom. Now.

      I knew something major was wrong. But there was no time to panic. All eight of us squeezed into our four-by-five-foot bathroom. The second we shut the door behind us, I heard what sounded like the crack of a baseball bat hitting a home run again and again. Then I heard glass shatter. Giant hail was pounding our roof and breaking our windows while Zac yelled over the noise, A tornado is headed straight for us!

      I was terrified of what would happen next. Then I heard what sounded like

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