Teen Life! is a comprehensive text designed to help young teens learn about themselves, their friends, families, communities, and environment. Students are challenged to develop daily living skills in food, clothing, decision making, and management. The overall goal is to enable students to be caring, responsible, and informed citizens. This new edition is colorful, appealing, and easy to read. Each Unit opens with Career Wise, a list of career choices and their descriptions related to the topics. Action features suggest activities to reinforce, enrich, or extend concepts. An entire lesson is devoted to careers in Family and Consumer Sciences. The text is divided into 57 short, easy-to-read lessons to hold the attention of young readers. Life Skills in Action features are realistic case studies that illustrate the important concepts of each topic.