Peers and friends are also important to young adults and can play an influential role in many young peoples’ choice of dress, mannerisms, and behaviors. Naturally, young adult fiction can portray that relationship. In Who the Man (Lynch, 2002), Earl has little control over his own life and resorts to fighting. In contrast, Nick learns that he can control his life and relationships the way he controls a basketball game in Night Hoops (Deuker, 2000), and Ben finds he has to challenge his best friend to a wrestling match in Wrestling Sturbridge (Wallace, 1996). In Nikki Grimes’ Bronx Masquerade (2001), as high school students read the poems that they have written, they reveal their secret fears and their real selves to their classmates. Peer pressure is a focus in The Battle of Jericho (Draper, 2003), while changing friendships play an important part in The New Rules of High School (Nelson, 2003). Other books that present glimpses of adolescent relationships are The Girls (Koss, 2000), Rain Catchers (Thesman, 1991), Snail Mail No More (Danziger & Martin, 2000), Three Clams and an Oyster (Powell, 2002), and How I Changed My Life (Strasser, 1995).
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