Books like Fast girls by Emily White

Go Ask Alice presents the diary of a teenage girl who falls into drug addiction, tracing her descent from a suburban family life to the streets of a city as she battles heroin, LSD, and other substances.

Christopher McDougall explores how the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico excel in ultra‑long distance running, revealing clues that could reshape training for contemporary athletes and shed light on the human running machine.

Adharanand Finn's quest to become one of the world's greatest runners takes him to Kenya's elite training camps.

Mary Karr’s memoir chronicles her turbulent, drug‑using teens in Texas, exploring self‑doubt, rebellion, and the complex social life of adolescent girls.

A witty romp through the halls of a prestigious New York private school, where teenage girls juggle friendship, social climbing, and the ever‑present gossip that shapes their adolescent lives.

Two girls from India form an unbreakable bond that takes them from a broken village to the streets of Seattle, as they confront poverty, family expectations, and violence while chasing each other across continents.

An intimate, scholarly exploration of U.S. teenage girls’ sexual lives in the early post‑contraceptive era, based on decades of field interviews and social history.

"Be sexy but not sexual. Don't be a prude but don't be a slut. These are the cultural messages that rain down on teenage girls. In movies and magazines, in music and advice columns, girls are portrayed as the object or the victim of someone else's desire - but virtually never as people with acceptable sexual feelings of their own. What teenage girls make of these contradictory messages, and what they make of their awakening sexuality - so distant from and yet so susceptible to cultural stereotypes - emerges for the first time in frank and complex fashion in Deborah Tolman's thoughtful and readable book.". "A look into the world of adolescent sexuality, this book offers an intimate and often disturbing, sometimes inspiring, picture of how teenage girls experience, understand, and respond to their sexual feelings, and of how society mediates, shapes, and distorts this experience. In extensive interviews, we listen as actual adolescent girls - white, black, and Latina, urban and suburban - talk candidly about their curiosity and confusion, their pleasure and disappointment, their fears, defiance, or capitulation in the face of a seemingly imperishable double standard that smiles upon burgeoning sexuality in boys yet frowns, even panics, at its equivalent in girls. Rather than trying to protect girls from sexual threats by denying their sexuality or sexual temptations, Tolman suggests that calmly acknowledging girls' sexual desire as real and normal can be an important way for parents to support their daughters' confidence in making their own decisions and resisting sexual peer pressure.". "Dilemmas of Desire vividly evokes girls' perplexity as they negotiate some of the most vexing issues of adolescence, all the while convinced that they are the only ones with these problems. As a thoughtful, richly informed examination of the dilemmas girls face, this revealing book begins the critical work of understanding the sexuality of young women in all its personal and social significance."--BOOK JACKET.

A nonfiction study of American teenage girls, 9‑18, and their social habits, including the impact of social media and the internet on their everyday conduct.

A candid, graphic‑novel‑style memoir that follows Ariel Schrag through her junior year of high school, exploring the humor, heartbreak, and awkward discoveries of teen life, including friendships, romance, and the comic‑book lens she uses to see it all.

Teenage Wasteland provides memorable portraits of "rock and roll kids" and analyses of their interests in heavy metal music and Satanism. A powerful indictment of the often manipulative media coverage of youth crises and so-called alternative programs designed to help "troubled" teens, Teenage Wasteland draws new conclusions and presents solid reasons to admire the resilience of suburbia's dead end kids.

A dark mystery unfolds in a London garden square where a young sister's disappearance sparks suspicion and fear among the neighbors.

High‑schooler Cole wrestles with desire and reputation, navigating friendships and sexual curiosity while his love for cross‑country and art provide a stark backdrop to teenage experimentation.