Category Archives: Teens

New blog reviews of How to Raise Your Parents

Some of my favorite blogs have reviewed How to Raise Your Parents (thanks to all you bloggers who read the book!). Here are the latest new reviews: The Reading Zone - How to Raise Your Parents: A Teen Girl’s Survival Guide by Sarah O’Leary Burningham was a nice break from the fiction I have been reading [...]

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Ask Sarah B – You Ask, I Answer – Questions from Real Teenagers

Here's your weekly Ask Sarah B sesh. Remember if you want to ask a question and get some advice, you can email me at: AskSarahB@gmail.com Question:I have a question. Ok. I'm a twin and my mom always makes us do the same things. Even if one of us wants to do something and the other [...]

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The Truth About Video Games

I’m terrible at most video games, although I have to say I totally rock Guitar Hero. I can’t get enough of that. My sister has Rock Band and since we don’t live in the same city, I haven’t played yet, but I can’t wait to get my hands on those drumsticks. There’s a new book [...]

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Financially Savvy Teens are Taking Over

The economy is tanking. Not to sound depressing or anything, but gas is a freaking fortune and milk for my beloved Quaker Oatmeal Squares is ridiculously expense. (Note: If you haven't tried Oatmeal Squares, then you should. They come in a blue box.) I find is particularly interesting that in this time of financial worry, there [...]

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The Secret Lives of Teenagers

Whenever I read a headline that says something like "The Secret Lives of Teenagers," I’m tempted to roll my eyes a little. Not because I don’t think teenagers have secrets, but because usually a headline this is an attempt to dramatize the bad decisions of a few teenagers and makes parents panics that their totally [...]

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Behind the Scenes on Book Tour

I have settled back home after being out on the road for 2 weeks. It’s great to be back home sleeping in my bed and waking up at a decent hour, but I kind of miss being out doing events and meeting people. So, I thought I would share some highlights from a few cities [...]

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My interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

While I was on book tour, I got to speak to a bunch of high school and junior high students in all different cities about how to deal with their parents. Let me just say, these were by far the best events I did. The teenagers had the best questions and we had really good [...]

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Ask Sarah B – You Ask, I Answer – Questions from Real Teenagers

Here’s your weekly Ask Sarah B sesh. Remember if you want to ask a question and get some advice, you can email me at: AskSarahB@gmail.com Question:My best friend broke up with her boyfriend a few weeks ago and he just asked our other friend to go out with him. And our other friend said yes! [...]

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Internet Voting for…Haircuts?

When I was in high school my dad said to me (more than once), "If everyone else jumped off a cliff would you jump off, too?" Aside from the fact that this is a total cliche, it’s not a very good way to demonstrate peer pressure. At least I don’t think so. Would I jump [...]

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On the Road Again

It’s sunny in Seattle and I feel so lucky. I lived in Bellevue growing up (the city right across the bridge from Seattle) and it’s not sunny very often. I think the book tour gods are being nice to me. Yesterday was a blast with 2 events in the Seattle area. The first was at [...]

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