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A girl is horribly injured when she walks through a glass door to get her parents' attention. A teen repeatedly tries to lose her virginity--and ends up a young mother in a failing marriage. A boy tries to understand the meaning of a slang term and becomes involved in some very strange discussions about sex.... Topics that encompass a broad range of experience--mental illness, teen sexuality, sex education, interracial adoption, and governmental repression--are all fair game in John Neufeld's books for young adults. In large part, Neufeld makes these themes accessible to his readers by placing well-drawn, often terribly misunderstood, youthful protagonists at the center of the action. In an essay for the Something about the Author Autobiography Series (SAAS), the author explained some of his inspiration: "The things that interest me are ideas and problems that face us all, but which we often first meet when we're young. If by writing how imaginary people meet and overcome certain problems helps real young people when they meet the same problems, then I was doing something useful as well as fun."
A Boy and His Books
Neufeld's early interest in books was fostered by his mother, a former English teacher.
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