catapult magazine

Items tagged teenager

• The gift of life

  A moment of near tragedy becomes a moment of grace in the journey toward God.

• An ordinary day

  A review of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, a film depicting a high school shooting that is alternately sensitive and detached.

• Sentimental filth

  Exploring the current influence of Judd Apatow in popular film.

• Move over, Sweet Valley High

  A top ten list of young adult fiction books for grown-ups.
  

• High school drama

  A review of the teen noir film Brick.

• The freedom, the pain and the just desserts of nerdiness

  Middle school lessons, for better or worse, become life lessons.

• A lasting impression

  A review of a young adult favorite, Ellen Raskin's The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues.

• <em>Evil Genius</em> series is conscious techno-fiction

  A review of the young adult novel Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks.

• Embracing teenagers

  A proposal for serving youth more effectively in the church.

• Bringing up Bart

  Imaging youth group as an expression of what we are for.

• The permanence of youth group

  A reflection on why I kept going back again and again.

• Running the freshman gauntlet

  A review of the young adult novel Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar.

• The lie of keeping it real

  A review of the book Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams.

• Life changer

  Remembering the pedagogy of Mrs. Schrager.

• Luke’s journal

  A short fiction piece about life in the wrong body.