Sample "High School" and "Teen Material"
The “TEEN” and “High School” designations appear to many to be very confusing. We were initially told that there would be information about the new classifications on the website and on site in the teen departments. A review of the inconsistentcy of the samples below reflect either a poorly written or poor executed policy.
High School
As of April 4th, 2009, the following books are labeled "High School." However, many appear to have relatively innocent content when compared to those found below under "Teen." One might expect the exact opposite application of the labels.
It’s Not Easy Being Mean by Lisi Harrison High School
P 180 Rumor had it they added a new bracelet every time one of them kissed a boy.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Lisi Harrison High School
(about a middle school girl and her first kiss)
P 56 she seemed so slutty. If I ever see her fat boobs near Derrington I’ll ….
P 80 You are getting your first kiss at a Valentine’s Day dance.
P 102 I want my first kiss with Cam to be romantic, not part of a bed.” Claire had no problem admitting she was a lip virgin.
P 125 Nina bent down again and wiggled her butt, the boys in their section applauded. She smiled and waved and blew a bubble.
Envy Robin Wasswrman High School
P 218 So he held her, wishing his hands could stray downward but he held back, just rubbing her shoulder blades.
The Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein High School {reads kind of like Little Women}
P 25 I wondered if Rosanna had loved him back. That’s not too young to be kissed.
P 95 May I kiss you? Please, John, “ I said, closing my eyes as I felt his breath on my face. The touch of his lips, familiar.
P 97 .. He kissed me hard, leaving my lips numb….
P 99 Then we clasped hands and faced forward together and husband and wife. Later we celebrated in private the sweeter ceremonies of marriage. I blush to recall my confusion and shyness, and his tenderness that overcame then. I could happily grow accustomed to such “duties.”
P 126 Thank goodness I am married or my husband himself would ruin my reputation, or my husband himself would ruin my reputation with his impulsive affections. I returned his ardent kisses. “I had a dream about you last night,” he murmured as his bands began to roam over my body. His touch was sweet and melting. I longed to be truly alone with him, in the dark, to permit his every caress.
P 365 He put both arms around me and leaned backward… our lips met and didn’t’ try to stop myself.
The Way He Lived by Emily Wing Smith High School
P 42 I can tell immediately that Ian is gay. He’s gay, and he’s not afraid to let people know it. I would be.
P 99 “and she might not be wearing many clothes,” I said to make Joel Blush, which he did.
P 176 Sometimes I’d imagine kissing him, and running my tongue through that narrow little gap.
P 186 He put his mouth on my mouth and he kissed me. It felt so good, like a kiss is supposed to feel - I knew it even though I had never kissed anybody else. IT felt so soft and warm… We both pulled away from each other. A real kiss because we both wanted it and we both knew we both wanted it, so we didn’t need to stop, we just kept going. I wanted to tempt him, I wanted him to tempt me. I didn’t want us to be Good Girl and Nice Guy.
P 187 I didn’t care about everything we had learned in seminary or at church or at youth camp. We kissed longer and I didn’t care that I wasn’t supposed to be alone on a couch with a boy and he wasn’t supposed to kiss a girl for longer than three seconds. I didn’t want him to see my flat chest, my little bra….but I was amazed that he wanted to see. He took off my shirt and threw it down on teh floor next to his and put his arms around me and held me.
P 188 And he let go of me… grabbed his shirt put it back on and (left).
Blonde Ambition b y Zoey Dean High School
P5 Where are you…. In Santa Barbara Screwing my Boyfriend.
P11 Now he slid both hands around her waist. “Dad’s gone,” he pointed out. “We could nap together.”…but she really didn’t feel like inviting him under her covers.
P 46 She wasn’t about to add details, such as the before and after sate of her former virginity.
P 68 The kiss he gave her heated her right through the down vest and jeans …. Then Ben pulled off his own sweater and gently kissed Anna onto the bed’s ruby velvet quilt. And then ….
P 70 She kissed his neck, down his chest She heard him groan. “Don’t start what you’re not going to finish,: he said hoarsely. She raised herself over him and whispered in his her :race you to the finish.” He rolled her over and pinned her down with his strong hands. He smiled down into her eyes. “You’re on.”
Anna awoke with a star t…not thinking about how naked she was ….
An IT girl. By Cecily Von Zieges High School
P 6 Did that mean they could dance in a sexually suggestive manner in private.
P 7 She could admit the truth, but everybody thought I was sleeping with all the guys in this band and I didn’t deny it sounded kind of slutty.
P 41 Brett had promised that, as soon as she got to school, shed call him up and they have phone sex.
P 42 Of course, indecision about losing her virginity wasn’t the kind of thing a girl like Brett ever admitted out loud.
P61 Then Heath lurched toward her. ….his mouth was suddenly all over her face, and his tongue was poking through her lips….tingles of pleasure began to run up her spine. His hands traced the outlines of her fingers but then… finally up to her chest.
P 75 He kissed her harder. His capable hands floated all over her body. He pulled her to the ground -
P76 and kissed her neck.
P 92 A box o f Lifestyles Extra Lubricated condoms Spilled out. Jenny shot up in bed, staring at Easy’s sprawled naked body.
P 93 He was pressed right up against her. “I was wondering when I’d get to meet you properly,” he mumbled.
P 195 At least Bandon wanted to have sex.
P 251 Eric Dalton had take off her clothes and kissed her everywhere. Then he’d take his own clothes off slowly, as if her were in a strip club. They’d massaged each other and fooled around and then, …
The A List by Zoey Dean High School
P 87 Just the fact that you bagged Myla is enough to make girls in Burbank want to compete for your affects. Dude I’ll take your fucking leftovers!” Mark whooped loudly, make a humping motion with his hips like a wildebeest on Animal Planet. To Ash’s friend, the only thing better than actually scoring with checks was talking about it.
P 116 Ash shoved past Lewis and dove into the pool, toppling a couple making out on an oversize inner tube.
No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan High School
P 98 Okay, you pussy-teasing faggot, do you know what I am going to do to you? I am going to take back that boy whose lips you are currently fellating, and I am going xxx you pictures of him doing things to me that he’d never, ever be able to do to you xxx. Every time you step of out the elevator, I am going to make sure that he and I are hammed together on the other side of the wall, releasing moans that are going to make you scramble to find porn. I will take him by the xxx and lead him away from you, and I will make you watch ever. Fucking. Moment.
P 100 Does there really have to be asexual charge? Isnt it enough to feel in it your xx even if you’re not feeling in xxx. ? Who the fuck am I kidding.
TEEN Books
Dangerously Alice by Phyllis Naylor TEEN
Page 10 … his finger moved a little under my arm, not quite stroking my breast. ASN electric shock traveled down my spine, but I did not move away.
Page 125 Dad said, “I’m so hungry for you . . .” And I knew they were going to make love. Omigod! I should leave! I shouldn’t be here! Told myself my head throbbing from guilt and shame. ….(the rest of the lengthily scene is the girl watching and listen to her father and his girlfriend having sex - please goes to pages 125-128 to read)
P 144 He kissed me, one hand slipping under my wroape and around to my bare back, caressing my skin. .. He was an excellent kisser - slow and gentle and first , then harder and more urgent as hugged me tighter.
P 144 gently caressing my breast, his finger approached my breast, he withdrew….I drew a sharp breath…
P 145 ..I just let him do it some more. He reached behind my neck and undid the fasten of the halter top. Then he slowly pulled it down, exposing my strapless bra. Just as slowly he undid my bra nad let it drop on the floor. I was lying in his arms with my bare breasts looking up ant him and he leaned down and kissed them. It was exciting and alittle scary to feel the weness in my pants, my nipples tightening and standing up straight as if they were asking for more. … his hand explored my thigh… moving up my thigh…
P147 My own fingers caressed my breasts under the blanket. Then my stomach, then between my legs, and finally I finished what Tony started in the car.
P 214 He was standing behind my chair, hands on my shoulders, and he letl them slide down my body until they reached my breasts. He bent over me thumbs circling my nipples, instantly, I felt the warm wetness between my legs. (continues on to page 215...)
P 215 I could feel him getting hard. Tony was trying to get me to lay on the bed lengthwise. I didn’t like the thought of being pushed back against the wall.
P 219 I like’s sex that’s certain. I liked a boy to kiss my breasts, to run his bands up na ddown my sides, to thrust his tongue in my mouth, to explore my slippery place and finger me….
Alice in the Know Phyllis Naylor Teen
(questions from sex quiz pages 105-109
How many times have you had sex?
Have you ever undressed for a guy?
Have you ever given a guy head?
Have you ever intimately touched a guy/?
How many times a week do you masturbate?
Which sexual activity would you be willing to try?
a. group sex
b. anal sex
c. oral sex
d. intercourse with a dog
Do you ever have sex with guys you know?
P 123 If I could have grabbed Brian by the balls right then and squeezed I would have.
P 150 I was sitting here with maybe two of the smartest kids in the whole school., one had had sex and one had smoked pot.
P 164 baby,baby, baby, gimme sweet, sweet kisses. I am your one-night missus.
Gossip Girl You know you love me by Cecily Von Ziegesar Teen
Page 9 It made him wonder if she’d be that intense in bed. They’d fooled around a lot but he’d always been the ore aggressive one. Blair always just kind of lay there, making the sorts of mewing sounds girls made in the movies, while he roamed around, doing things to her. But tonight Blair seemed impatient hungrier.
Page 24 He reached for her hand and pulled her down on top of him. They kissed, their lips and tongues playing the same game sfor each other they’d been playing for two years. …they weren’t going to stop unti they had bought every piece of real estate they could lay their hands on.
p. 25 “I promise to be careful” said Nate, sliding his hand over her hip and down her leg. Blain took a deep break and tried to relax her whole body.
P. 30 Blair closed her eyes and tried to relax. She could do this. She could go ahead and have sex and millions of orgasms even though her mother and Cyrus were in the next room.
P 98 He let his head roll forward and fell onto her shoulders. … He usually had to smoke up or have a few drinks before Blaire…. With Jennifer he didn’t even need to be high.
John Green Paper Towns Teen
P 60 Call yourself a faggot. In the end I had to call myself a faggot.
P 88 “Oh my God, if you hooked up with her, you have to tell me every single that happened. You have to write me a term paper on the look and feel of Margo Roth Spiegelman’s breasts.”
P 89 “I’m the only guys I know with the balls to give a hone bunny what she really wants.
P93 “she’s somewhere by herself having the kind of fun we can only imagine, “ I said. “are you saying that she playing with herself?
P96 Jasper Johnson was a junior. I’d always thought him harmless and actually sort of nice. Not the kidn of guy you’d expect to see peeing geysers of pee at freshmen.
P284 .. To my knight in shining armor that I would strip my clothes off and beg you to ravage my body.
Lust Robin Wasserman Teen
P 1. …the encounter had been nothing if not hasty, brutish, and perhaps mercifully short.
P3 This is reality Adam, not your favorite porn movie.
P11 Adam flushed and said a silent prayer to whoever watched over sex-obsessed teenagers that Kane would notice his sudden and obvious discomfort. Beth was willing to climb into the bed, all night. She would lie there next to him, and caress him, and drive him crazy with desire and ----.
P 33 I was still strange to see him there, in the bed she’d slept in since she was a child. It was still a child’s room, really.
P 34 …when she let her fantasises get away from her and imagined thrower herself at him, losing herself to the moment.
P37 Silently, Adam got out of bed and pulled on his clothes.
P 42 If there was going to be a male body pressed up against her like this, Kan really was not the one should would have chosen.
P 54 He would look up, she would look up, their eyes would meet, and they would be on each other, kissing, stroking, fumbling with buttons and bra straps, despaerate to drink each other in, to find every one of their bodies hidden secrets, to touch to meld….pushed up against the wall and dug her body into him, ….not caring who saw.
P 55 their lips met, their bodies come together, She’d been so hesitant, so scared and tense, almost pulling away. Then she took a deep breath, her could feel her….
P 56 their lips inches apart, their bodies wound around each other…
P 89 ….fingers grazing her body, climbing through her tangles of hair, stroking her legs…. The warm pressure of his arms wrapped around her, his lips kissing their way down her neck, her should, her breasts,
.her body was tingling…
P 116 One hand on the wheel and the other massaging the countours of her iner thihg. Harper let her hand creep across into his lap, returning the favor.
The Queen of Everything by Deb Caletti Teen
P 13 I swear he got a hard on.
P 25 he had a tatoo on his penis that said I GET A RISE OUT OF YOU.
P 84 tried for years to be a lesbian, except she could do the sex part.
P 263 That plastic thing he put on looked like it hurt. He was hurting me, Jesus, but he did seem to notice. His face was sweaty. Turning red from somewhere inside the layers of tan. I turned my head. I didn’t want to see him….. Until Kale moaned the moan of something ripping away and laid his full weight on top of me.
P 313 He reached over to me and circled my hips, scooted me down to him. He started to kiss me again, grabbed a handful of my butt…
P 314 He pulled down his underwear and his penis popped out with a boing…..
The Book of Luke by Jenny O’Connell Teen (About a senior in high school and first sexual encounter)
P 32 Sean and I could spend all night on his couch making out, and our hands were doing way more than holding. We never had sex…. That is why having sex consumed eighty percent of my waking hours.
P 131 He had a better chance of getting in my pants in an empty house.
P 202 But because it was Luke. Because somehow I knew it would feel right even if sleeping with the guy my best friend wanted was all wrong.
P 245 I could tell Luke had had sex before…. I knew I was different… I slept with Luke because I really believed I loved him.
Lady J by L. Divine TEEN
(general discussion through out of “pimpin” “tricks” with uncle whose brother is a pimp)
P 23 “I don’t care if the bitch is pregnant,” Mickey says, looking at Jeremy, but talking to no one in particular. “She’s about to get her ass whipped once and for all, talking to me like she knows me. I hope the baby gives her some breasts.
P 36 “ How can you think so badly about a girl you made a baby with?” I say. How is it that dudes get amnesia about a girl’s personality when they sleep with her, but a perfect recollection of what a bitch she is after it’s all over. If this is how sex affects the brain, I might stay a virgin forever.
P42 …grabbing her around the waist and staking his claim for all to see, including Nigel. The football players up her suck, y’all need to come to Compton. That’s where all the real niggas play.”
P 50 But can’t nobody do it like I do and you know this man. … I keep telling your stupid ass that he’s my man and we have to deal with each other in our own way. You don’t see me talking shit about your and your trifling trick do you?
P 63 Esmeralda has gone too far this time, trying to get with my man. I know, I should blame him for going over there in the first place, but lured him…. I’ve got something for her ass before I leave.
P 82 “I have given suck and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me.”
P 134 There is no difference between a girlfriend and a ho. Damn.
P 135 Any time a dude feels like snatching up a girl, its my business.