The book's title sums everything up!
This book comprises a collection of thirty autobiographical poems, written by the author herself, when she was a teenager. The first poem was written in August 1993, when the author was fourteen years old and the final poem was written in April 1997, a month before she turned eighteen.
The poems reflect the trials and tribulations of the author's teenage years and were written as an outlet to help her navigate life as a teenager and the feelings associated with her experiences during that phase of her life.
These poems demonstrate how adolescence is indeed a period of storm and stress and that teenage life can be full of heartaches and unique challenges. However, with a little faith, determination and resilience, and with support from family and friends, each and every teenage individual can make it out the other side, older, wiser and relatively unscathed!