Teen Ink Magazine, March 2010 Edition
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Articles from this Issue
Hot Topics
EnvironmentThe Trees By Ty K., Seattle, CA
Letters to the EditorAm I Cain? By Amanda J., Fox Island, WA
Letters to the EditorDiscrepancy By Savannah F., Jacksonville, FL
Letters to the EditorI Kissed the Boy Who Hit Me By Brittany T., AVONDALE, AZ
Letters to the EditorKickers
Letters to the EditorThe Day I Threw a Kegger By Brandon N., Brooklyn, NY
Letters to the EditorThe Dreaded Bus By Taylor B., Oak Bluffs, MA
Letters to the EditorThe Homework Revolution By Brian M., Phoenix, AZ
Letters to the EditorVideo Games Reviews By Wyatt L., Denver, CO
What MattersAutobiography By Jorge H., Culver, IN
Letters to the EditorAm I Cain? By Amanda J., Fox Island, WA
Letters to the EditorDiscrepancy By Savannah F., Jacksonville, FL
Letters to the EditorI Kissed the Boy Who Hit Me By Brittany T., AVONDALE, AZ
Letters to the EditorKickers

Letters to the EditorThe Day I Threw a Kegger By Brandon N., Brooklyn, NY
Letters to the EditorThe Dreaded Bus By Taylor B., Oak Bluffs, MA
Letters to the EditorThe Homework Revolution By Brian M., Phoenix, AZ
Letters to the EditorVideo Games Reviews By Wyatt L., Denver, CO
What MattersAutobiography By Jorge H., Culver, IN
Nonfiction
Must Love Children 
Zoo Guest Handbook By Blaire L., Palatine, IL
Educator of the YearKeith Davis, Band, Cleburne High
Educator of the YearMichael Miller, English, Thomas Jefferson H.S. By Sam S., Sterling, VA
HeroesDo You Remember, Brother?
HeroesElected Official Harvey Milk By Caitlyn S., Cannon Falls, MN
HeroesMucisian Andrew McMahon
HeroesSister Lauren G. By Kelsey G., Cumberland, RI
MemoirThe Elephant Man
MemoirWash. Rinse. Repeat.
MemoirWhat the Doctor Ordered
Personal ExperienceBright Red Snow Pants By Lydia A., Concord, MA
Personal ExperienceForget the Tears
SportsA Different Kind of Family
SportsMarathon
SportsSmallest Inspiration
Travel & CultureA New Kind of Chef
Travel & CultureGlimpse of a Dream World By Meghan O., Chattanooga, TN
Travel & CultureMoving to India By Katja F., Bethesda, MD
Travel & CultureMy Northwest Roots By India P., Newport, OR

Zoo Guest Handbook By Blaire L., Palatine, IL
Educator of the YearKeith Davis, Band, Cleburne High

Educator of the YearMichael Miller, English, Thomas Jefferson H.S. By Sam S., Sterling, VA
HeroesDo You Remember, Brother?

HeroesElected Official Harvey Milk By Caitlyn S., Cannon Falls, MN
HeroesMucisian Andrew McMahon

HeroesSister Lauren G. By Kelsey G., Cumberland, RI
MemoirThe Elephant Man

MemoirWash. Rinse. Repeat.

MemoirWhat the Doctor Ordered

Personal ExperienceBright Red Snow Pants By Lydia A., Concord, MA
Personal ExperienceForget the Tears

SportsA Different Kind of Family

SportsMarathon

SportsSmallest Inspiration

Travel & CultureA New Kind of Chef

Travel & CultureGlimpse of a Dream World By Meghan O., Chattanooga, TN
Travel & CultureMoving to India By Katja F., Bethesda, MD
Travel & CultureMy Northwest Roots By India P., Newport, OR
Opinion
Laugh For Once 
Lobbying for Lobbyists By Shardul G., phoenix, AZ
To Drink or Not to Drink? By Anonymous, -, FL
Musical Rhetoric By Evan S., Heath, TX
I Hear Voices
Our Generation's Woodstock By Maren K., Medford, OR
The Steroid Era

Lobbying for Lobbyists By Shardul G., phoenix, AZ
To Drink or Not to Drink? By Anonymous, -, FL
Musical Rhetoric By Evan S., Heath, TX
I Hear Voices

Our Generation's Woodstock By Maren K., Medford, OR
The Steroid Era

Reviews
Book ReviewsBringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich By Jeremy L., Stamford, CT
Book ReviewsCrazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad
Book ReviewsDouble Helix by Nancy Werlin
Book ReviewsMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Movie ReviewsAvatar
Movie ReviewsInglourious Basterds By Walker S., Victoria, MN
Movie ReviewsThe Blind Side By Bettina M., Glendale, AZ
Movie ReviewsUp
Movie ReviewsUp in the Air
Music ReviewsAdam Lambert - "For Your Entertainment"
Music ReviewsGenghis Tron - "Board up the House" By Henry D., Charlotte, NC
Music ReviewsKe$ha - "Animal"
Music ReviewsSelena Gomez - "Kiss & Tell" By Tu-khanh L., Grapevine, TX
Music ReviewsThe Beatles By Brendan N., Wyckoff, NJ
Video game reviewsBatman: Arkham Asylum
Video game reviewsProfessor Layton and the Curious Village By Carol D., Brooklyn, NY
Video game reviewsThe World Ends With You By Michelle C., Brooklyn, NY
Video game reviewsWorld of Goo By Tony H., Phoenix, AZ
Book ReviewsCrazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad

Book ReviewsDouble Helix by Nancy Werlin

Book ReviewsMy Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Movie ReviewsAvatar

Movie ReviewsInglourious Basterds By Walker S., Victoria, MN
Movie ReviewsThe Blind Side By Bettina M., Glendale, AZ
Movie ReviewsUp

Movie ReviewsUp in the Air

Music ReviewsAdam Lambert - "For Your Entertainment"

Music ReviewsGenghis Tron - "Board up the House" By Henry D., Charlotte, NC
Music ReviewsKe$ha - "Animal"

Music ReviewsSelena Gomez - "Kiss & Tell" By Tu-khanh L., Grapevine, TX
Music ReviewsThe Beatles By Brendan N., Wyckoff, NJ
Video game reviewsBatman: Arkham Asylum

Video game reviewsProfessor Layton and the Curious Village By Carol D., Brooklyn, NY
Video game reviewsThe World Ends With You By Michelle C., Brooklyn, NY
Video game reviewsWorld of Goo By Tony H., Phoenix, AZ

Art / Photo
A New Day 
Affection
apples By Jorie S., scio, NY
ArkanSASS.
Colorful
Cross Country 08 By Ashley R., Charlotte, NC
Dance like No One is Watching
Don't Cry
Egyptian Life
Entropy
Fish.
Florida Waterspout By Christopher G., phoenix, AZ
Forest Festival By Rebecca G., Aylesbury, United Kingdom
grandma mildred
Hidden
Inner Peace
Iridescent sea clouds
Lioness
lost By Jessica M., west bloomfield, MI
Luminous Shadows
Mason Calhoun
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Merry Christmas!
musicality.
Nerd and butterfly 3
Pause
Rawr
Reaching Metal Hands
Second Anniversary II
Shelby Marie By Julie P., rochdale, MA
Simplicity
Sleep
sonic fusion By Andrew Y., wake forest, NC
strawberry.
Suah and the mother land
Summer Love By Savanna R., mercer island, WA
The Brooklyn Bridge By Andrew M., Brooklyn, NY
The Commute Entertainer
The eyes of Jasmine
The Hallway
The Orators
The Steps to Ruin
There is a rusty light shining bright. By Alex D., Russellville, AR
To Sir Lincoln
Tree Music
vigilantes

Affection

apples By Jorie S., scio, NY
ArkanSASS.

Colorful

Cross Country 08 By Ashley R., Charlotte, NC
Dance like No One is Watching

Don't Cry

Egyptian Life

Entropy

Fish.

Florida Waterspout By Christopher G., phoenix, AZ
Forest Festival By Rebecca G., Aylesbury, United Kingdom
grandma mildred

Hidden

Inner Peace

Iridescent sea clouds

Lioness

lost By Jessica M., west bloomfield, MI
Luminous Shadows

Mason Calhoun

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

Merry Christmas!

musicality.

Nerd and butterfly 3

Pause

Rawr

Reaching Metal Hands

Second Anniversary II

Shelby Marie By Julie P., rochdale, MA
Simplicity

Sleep

sonic fusion By Andrew Y., wake forest, NC
strawberry.

Suah and the mother land

Summer Love By Savanna R., mercer island, WA
The Brooklyn Bridge By Andrew M., Brooklyn, NY
The Commute Entertainer

The eyes of Jasmine

The Hallway

The Orators

The Steps to Ruin

There is a rusty light shining bright. By Alex D., Russellville, AR
To Sir Lincoln

Tree Music

vigilantes

Poetry
Beware of What You Know Not By Marvin W., princeville, HI
clay houses
Define
Egypt from the Air By Samuel R., Fairway, KS
First Month as a Vegetarian
frog-made
Grain of Sand
Guilty as a Grim Reaper
Hearts and Heads
Hidden in the Shadows
If I say
Lamentations Of A Bus Girl By Alwynn G., Milwaukie, OR
Miscalculation
Near Antonyms
Nervous Speaker
Once a Soldier By Alanna D., Bayside, NY
Something Vital
St. Joan By Meghan S., Bethlehem, PA
Weather Man
Welcome Home
what more By Athena M., biloxi, MS
Yo-Yo Heart
...Poetry maybe?
A Prayer for Mama
A Second
Al cat raz By Marlea K., Schoharie, NY
Anonymous By Anonymous, Fairfax, VA
Bitch (II)
Blank
bottled spring
Buckle Up, There's a Storm Blowing In
Bug War By Katie V., Clarkston, MI
Burning Fire
Candidate Brew
Dinner Talk
Eight is not Enough
Evil Fly
Faulty Relationship
Gills
Going Home
gossip By Jackie B., New Rochelle, NY
Heartbeat By Elisha L., Canton, OH
Highs and Lows
Home at the Lake By Katie V., Clarkston, MI
i am always the last one asleep By Adriana V., Princeton, NJ
I Can Already Hear The Slamming Metal
I Tried To Save Myself Today
I Walk
I, Sandwiches Chef By Brad T., Keller, TX
In Front Of You
Informercial
ink on rainwater
Introductions and Good-byes By Kelsey T., South Bend, IN
It is with the collapsing
Jawbreaker
Just Being a Teenager
Lavender Moon and a Silver Photograph
Leaving By Harneet K., Bridgewater, NJ
Morning
Mother
My Coffee Shop Revelation
November
Nutshell
Old; Young
Otherwhere or The Reality of Reality
Permit Me to Tell You About Sorrow
Poet's Lament By Alexis R., Clarkdale, AZ
Ruby Red
Running
Secrets
Self-Imprisonment
Someone to Save Me
Someone's Not Here
Statistics
The Witness
Town Square
Unheard Voice
wrinkles
The Ballet
Blackened Hearts
Clipped Wings
clay houses

Define

Egypt from the Air By Samuel R., Fairway, KS
First Month as a Vegetarian

frog-made

Grain of Sand

Guilty as a Grim Reaper

Hearts and Heads

Hidden in the Shadows

If I say

Lamentations Of A Bus Girl By Alwynn G., Milwaukie, OR
Miscalculation

Near Antonyms

Nervous Speaker

Once a Soldier By Alanna D., Bayside, NY
Something Vital

St. Joan By Meghan S., Bethlehem, PA
Weather Man

Welcome Home

what more By Athena M., biloxi, MS
Yo-Yo Heart

...Poetry maybe?

A Prayer for Mama

A Second

Al cat raz By Marlea K., Schoharie, NY
Anonymous By Anonymous, Fairfax, VA
Bitch (II)

Blank

bottled spring

Buckle Up, There's a Storm Blowing In

Bug War By Katie V., Clarkston, MI
Burning Fire

Candidate Brew

Dinner Talk

Eight is not Enough

Evil Fly

Faulty Relationship

Gills

Going Home

gossip By Jackie B., New Rochelle, NY
Heartbeat By Elisha L., Canton, OH
Highs and Lows

Home at the Lake By Katie V., Clarkston, MI
i am always the last one asleep By Adriana V., Princeton, NJ
I Can Already Hear The Slamming Metal

I Tried To Save Myself Today

I Walk

I, Sandwiches Chef By Brad T., Keller, TX
In Front Of You

Informercial

ink on rainwater

Introductions and Good-byes By Kelsey T., South Bend, IN
It is with the collapsing

Jawbreaker

Just Being a Teenager

Lavender Moon and a Silver Photograph

Leaving By Harneet K., Bridgewater, NJ
Morning

Mother

My Coffee Shop Revelation

November

Nutshell

Old; Young

Otherwhere or The Reality of Reality

Permit Me to Tell You About Sorrow

Poet's Lament By Alexis R., Clarkdale, AZ
Ruby Red

Running

Secrets

Self-Imprisonment

Someone to Save Me

Someone's Not Here

Statistics

The Witness

Town Square

Unheard Voice

wrinkles

The Ballet

Blackened Hearts

Clipped Wings
