Teen Ink Magazine, February 2012 Edition
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Articles from this Issue
Fiction
Confessions of Prince Charming By Annie K., Ilderton, Canada
The Dreams of Fred
Facebook Love
Stupid Love
Panophobia
The Dreams of Fred
Facebook Love
Stupid Love
Panophobia
Hot Topics
Community ServiceBeulah's Story
Community ServiceSpoiled
Environment21st Century Evolution
EnvironmentThe Beauty of the Cosmos
EnvironmentThe Omnivores Dilemma
HealthAsthma (the Price of Life)
HealthSorting Screws
Letters to the EditorA Peaceful Revolution By Timon L., Brooklyn, NY
Letters to the EditorMissing the Health Care Bus By Maddie B., Bethlemhem, PA
Letters to the EditorShe’s Beauty
Letters to the EditorSpreading the Word AboutTeen Ink
Letters to the EditorThank You, Teen Ink By Mauricio C., Commerce City, CO
Letters to the EditorThe Snowman
Letters to the EditorYou Are Lucky
Pride & PrejudiceLoving My Size
Pride & PrejudicePerfection
Pride & PrejudiceTake a Joke, Sweetheart
Community ServiceSpoiled
Environment21st Century Evolution
EnvironmentThe Beauty of the Cosmos
EnvironmentThe Omnivores Dilemma
HealthAsthma (the Price of Life)
HealthSorting Screws
Letters to the EditorA Peaceful Revolution By Timon L., Brooklyn, NY
Letters to the EditorMissing the Health Care Bus By Maddie B., Bethlemhem, PA
Letters to the EditorShe’s Beauty
Letters to the EditorSpreading the Word AboutTeen Ink
Letters to the EditorThank You, Teen Ink By Mauricio C., Commerce City, CO
Letters to the EditorThe Snowman
Letters to the EditorYou Are Lucky
Pride & PrejudiceLoving My Size
Pride & PrejudicePerfection
Pride & PrejudiceTake a Joke, Sweetheart
Nonfiction
HeroesGino Scalo: History Teacher, Carmel Valley Middle School 
HeroesVickie Ball: English Teacher, Harlan Independent High School By Nicholas H., Harlan, KY
InterviewsAuthor Kate Klimo
InterviewsBosnia: The Hidden Genocide
MemoirI Can Move Through Worlds
MemoirJust a Little Off the Top
MemoirPatchwork
MemoirPennies
MemoirRuby Red Memory
Personal Experience365 Days
Personal ExperienceA Geek’s Guide to Love
Personal ExperienceCharm
Personal ExperienceEnheduanna
Personal ExperienceGod Is My Head
Personal ExperienceI Want An Honest Poem
Personal ExperienceIn a Matter of Eight Minutes
Personal ExperienceMemory Thief
Personal ExperiencePlaces By Tausif N., North Babylon, NY
Personal ExperienceThrough the Eyes of a Pregnant 17-year-old Girl By Anonymous, Fort Wayne, IN
Personal ExperienceWaiting
SportsThe Art of Fighting By Josh B., Saint Joseph, MI
Travel & CultureIdealizing France
Travel & CultureIl Gato
Travel & CultureMother Tongue
Travel & CultureNew Yorkers
HeroesVickie Ball: English Teacher, Harlan Independent High School By Nicholas H., Harlan, KY
InterviewsAuthor Kate Klimo
InterviewsBosnia: The Hidden Genocide
MemoirI Can Move Through Worlds
MemoirJust a Little Off the Top
MemoirPatchwork
MemoirPennies
MemoirRuby Red Memory
Personal Experience365 Days
Personal ExperienceA Geek’s Guide to Love
Personal ExperienceCharm
Personal ExperienceEnheduanna
Personal ExperienceGod Is My Head
Personal ExperienceI Want An Honest Poem
Personal ExperienceIn a Matter of Eight Minutes
Personal ExperienceMemory Thief
Personal ExperiencePlaces By Tausif N., North Babylon, NY
Personal ExperienceThrough the Eyes of a Pregnant 17-year-old Girl By Anonymous, Fort Wayne, IN
Personal ExperienceWaiting
SportsThe Art of Fighting By Josh B., Saint Joseph, MI
Travel & CultureIdealizing France
Travel & CultureIl Gato
Travel & CultureMother Tongue
Travel & CultureNew Yorkers
Opinion
Texting While Walking By Jake L., Welch, MN
Txting: the Gr8 Deb8
Good-Bye, Wallflowers By Anonymous, Portland, OR
Throwing Away the Makeup
Txting: the Gr8 Deb8
Good-Bye, Wallflowers By Anonymous, Portland, OR
Throwing Away the Makeup
Reviews
Book ReviewsInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Book ReviewsPeter the Great by Robert K. Massie
Book ReviewsThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson By Joe K., St. Louis, MO
Book ReviewsThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Book ReviewsThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Movie ReviewsBill Cosby: Himself
Movie ReviewsDrumline
Movie ReviewsEasy A
Movie ReviewsSay Anything … By Madie R., Cannon Falls, MN
Music ReviewsDead Man’s Bones: Dead Man’s Bones
Music ReviewsINXS: Kick
Music ReviewsT-Pain: Revolver
Music ReviewsThe Sign of the Southern Cross: Of Mountains and Moonshine
TV show reviewsTeen Mom
Book ReviewsPeter the Great by Robert K. Massie
Book ReviewsThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson By Joe K., St. Louis, MO
Book ReviewsThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Book ReviewsThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Movie ReviewsBill Cosby: Himself
Movie ReviewsDrumline
Movie ReviewsEasy A
Movie ReviewsSay Anything … By Madie R., Cannon Falls, MN
Music ReviewsDead Man’s Bones: Dead Man’s Bones
Music ReviewsINXS: Kick
Music ReviewsT-Pain: Revolver
Music ReviewsThe Sign of the Southern Cross: Of Mountains and Moonshine
TV show reviewsTeen Mom
Art / Photo
A kiss of Colour 
Beauty and the Monster
Becoming Beautiful
Blue's Clues
Bound Together With Love
Boy of Colors
Cef'alu
colourful culture. By Toria R., Bethesda, MD
Come Back
Common Cents
Cyborged
dumbo artist
Erin.
Guitar Games
Half Alive
Hands
Hannah II
I am the hot dog man
I smile
letting go
LIKE BOOM
Lucas
Malka
Man Unknwon By Heather R., Mill Valley, CA
Organs Do Not Love
Portrait I
Protect Me In The Rain
Pushing Through To Success By Gemma A., Lubbock, TX
Quite Sad
Round it Goes
Silly Duck
Smoke and Mirrors
Soul Meets Body By Katya K., Westfield, IN
strawberry splash
The Peach Blossom Fan
thirsty
Violet Lines
You Already Take Me There By Katya K., Westfield, IN
Beauty and the Monster
Becoming Beautiful
Blue's Clues
Bound Together With Love
Boy of Colors
Cef'alu
colourful culture. By Toria R., Bethesda, MD
Come Back
Common Cents
Cyborged
dumbo artist
Erin.
Guitar Games
Half Alive
Hands
Hannah II
I am the hot dog man
I smile
letting go
LIKE BOOM
Lucas
Malka
Man Unknwon By Heather R., Mill Valley, CA
Organs Do Not Love
Portrait I
Protect Me In The Rain
Pushing Through To Success By Gemma A., Lubbock, TX
Quite Sad
Round it Goes
Silly Duck
Smoke and Mirrors
Soul Meets Body By Katya K., Westfield, IN
strawberry splash
The Peach Blossom Fan
thirsty
Violet Lines
You Already Take Me There By Katya K., Westfield, IN
Poetry
A Cadaver's Heart 
Another One
Ninety-Four
My Heart is the Only One Who Could Explain It
One of Those People
$limy By Jacob W., Clinton, TN
A Broken Heart
A New Kind of Fall
A Winter’s Breeze By Nick L., Clarkston, MI
An Old Familiar Shirt
An Old Friend
And Then You Were Gone
Balloon Catchers
Before We Die
Break Up, Wake Up
Capturing Love
Carousel
Cigarettes and Tangerine
Colors
Coming Soon to a Life Near You By Brian F., Chicago, IL
Contrasting Shadows
Crying Love
Dragging Me In By Rachel H., Irmo, SD
Dreamer
Dreary Arizona
education
Esmeralda By Luo Qi K., Brooklyn, NY
Every Moment Changes You
Faces
Fairy Tales
Fall Came
Finders
four letters
Her Legs
How Far?
I Hate Your Laugh
I Met You When Red Met Blue
Kisses
Liberty
Loveful Lust
Maybe
Memoir #67
My Hands Are Empty
Of Jake
Of Poets’ Eyes & Mechanical Hearts
On Life Not Having a Pause Button
Parallel Parking
Pastoral Sea By Mariah C., Gilmanton Iron Works, NH
Pick Me Up a Flower
Plumey's Brother
Rapunzel
Rooftop
Room 201
Scar Tissue
self realization through your eyes
Shopping for love
Sorry
Spanish
Stuck and Unstuck Love
Tangled
The Absurdity of a Heart-Shaped Necklace
The Boy
The Language of Listeners
The Mystery of Me By Kara O., North Tonawanda, NY
The Year
This Much
This Poem Will Satirize Poems
Thunderstorms
Today
Weirdo By Cecilia S., Brooklyn, NY
What a Man By Valerie W., Oshkosh, WI
What Apparently Seems Ordinary
What Georgia Did By Bethany C., Gilford, NH
Where Dandelions Roar
Why I Shouldn't Text at Night
You are my habit.
Zest of My Heart
Excuses
Series of Haikus: Detachment
Umbrella
What Love Taught
The View
Burn My Heart
Sunday Morning
Another One
Ninety-Four
My Heart is the Only One Who Could Explain It
One of Those People
$limy By Jacob W., Clinton, TN
A Broken Heart
A New Kind of Fall
A Winter’s Breeze By Nick L., Clarkston, MI
An Old Familiar Shirt
An Old Friend
And Then You Were Gone
Balloon Catchers
Before We Die
Break Up, Wake Up
Capturing Love
Carousel
Cigarettes and Tangerine
Colors
Coming Soon to a Life Near You By Brian F., Chicago, IL
Contrasting Shadows
Crying Love
Dragging Me In By Rachel H., Irmo, SD
Dreamer
Dreary Arizona
education
Esmeralda By Luo Qi K., Brooklyn, NY
Every Moment Changes You
Faces
Fairy Tales
Fall Came
Finders
four letters
Her Legs
How Far?
I Hate Your Laugh
I Met You When Red Met Blue
Kisses
Liberty
Loveful Lust
Maybe
Memoir #67
My Hands Are Empty
Of Jake
Of Poets’ Eyes & Mechanical Hearts
On Life Not Having a Pause Button
Parallel Parking
Pastoral Sea By Mariah C., Gilmanton Iron Works, NH
Pick Me Up a Flower
Plumey's Brother
Rapunzel
Rooftop
Room 201
Scar Tissue
self realization through your eyes
Shopping for love
Sorry
Spanish
Stuck and Unstuck Love
Tangled
The Absurdity of a Heart-Shaped Necklace
The Boy
The Language of Listeners
The Mystery of Me By Kara O., North Tonawanda, NY
The Year
This Much
This Poem Will Satirize Poems
Thunderstorms
Today
Weirdo By Cecilia S., Brooklyn, NY
What a Man By Valerie W., Oshkosh, WI
What Apparently Seems Ordinary
What Georgia Did By Bethany C., Gilford, NH
Where Dandelions Roar
Why I Shouldn't Text at Night
You are my habit.
Zest of My Heart
Excuses
Series of Haikus: Detachment
Umbrella
What Love Taught
The View
Burn My Heart
Sunday Morning
