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Fashion! Beauty! Celebs! Sex!
A Look Inside the World of Teen Magazines
By Kelly Burgess
Dumbest article: A cartoon about a girl who takes up mountain biking just to meet boys.
Best feature: Fiction! A magazine that actually promotes reading something besides magazines can't be too bad.
Web site: http://www.seventeen.com
My recommendation: Mature 17-year-olds only (it's called Seventeen Magazine for a reason).
Teen People
Newsstand price: $2.99
Cover celebrity: Josh Hartnett
Features: My Dad's Gone to War. Transgender Teens (this one cracked my daughter and 13-year-old son up for several days – not the intended reaction, I'm sure). 25 Hottest Stars Under 25. Many, many celebrities.
Health: Solve Your Summer Skin Problems. Why Blue is a Happy Color (huh?).
Best feature: The fashion shoots – they use actual girls. It's called model-free fashion, and it's a great idea. Unfortunately, they stick it in the very back, so you have to wade through nearly 200 pages of skinny models and celebrities to get to the real girls. Still, it's a start.
Disclaimer: My sister sent my daughter a subscription to this magazine for Christmas. It doesn't seem to have done her any harm.
Web site: http://www.teenpeople.com
My recommendation: Age 13.
Teen Vogue
Newsstand price: $1.50 (the magazine noted that this was a special price)
Cover celebrity: Ashanti
Teen Vogue was unlike the other magazines in that it was smaller and thicker, about three-quarters of the size of the other publications. There was a lot of fashion and beauty, as one would expect from this mini-Vogue.
