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Winners for the Parenting Teens Site

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Winners for the Parenting Teens Site

Welcome to the 2012 About.com Readers' Choice Awards at the Parenting Teens site! You nominated, you voted, we tallied, and now we have your winning picks for the these ten categories:


Congratulations to our winners!

Best Book for Teens Winner: The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games book series is simply a brilliant and thought-provoking read, for parents, teens and young adults. But, I would caution parents of children under the age of 12 to read the books with their preteens or allow them to wait until a more appropriate age so they can get the full understanding of hope the author is trying to convey without getting wiped out by the trauma. The author, Suzanne Collins, of the book series has said in interviews that it is about the consequences of war - something her father as a veteran didn't shield from his children...

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Best Parenting Teens Book Winner: Tornado Warning

Parents, teens, and survivors are lucky that Elin Stebbins Waldal has the courage to share her own harrowing experience with teen dating violence. At 17 she unwittingly fell in love with an abusive man. Tornado Warning is the true, honest portrait of how he whittled her down--with words, hands, and weapons--from a confident teen to the shadow of a woman. Take a look at Tornado Warning, A Memoir of Teen Dating Violence and Its Effect On A Woman.

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Best Television Show for Families with Teens Winner: Switched at Birth

Switched at Birth: "Tells the story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother. Meanwhile, Daphne Vasquez, who contracted meningitis and became deaf at an early age, grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when the families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls."
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Best Site for Teens Winner: TeenLife.com

About TeenLife: "TeenLife is the leading school-parent resource for information about experiential and educational opportunities, both locally and nationally, for middle and high school students. We connect families, schools, and high school students with summer and gap year programs, community service opportunities, and after school and weekend activities."

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Best Online Store for Teen Fashions Winner: Forever 21

Forever 21: Trendy fashion store for young women and teens. Site have a fashion blog with challenges and contests, includes a Forever 21 Playlist. Slog shows trends and fashion pieces to create outfits.
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Coolest Parenting Teens Gadget Winner: Life360 Family Locator

Life360 Family Locator: "Family Locator by Life360 is the most accurate and powerful locator service. You will know where your family members are located, what safety points and threats are nearby and when anyone is safe or needs help."
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Best Educational Site Winners: Webmath & CollegeBoard's SAT Question of the Day

We have a tie in this category! The winners for the Coolest Educational Site for Teens are Webmath and CollegeBoard's SAT Question of the Day.

"Webmath is a math-help web site that generates answers to specific math questions and problems, as entered by a user, at any particular moment. The math answers are generated and displayed real-time, at the moment a web user types in their math problem and clicks "solve." In addition to the answers, Webmath also shows the student how to arrive at the answer."

CollegeBoard's SAT Question of the Day is a "leading 'going to college' website offers this interactive SAT question of the day tool. You can sign up and keep score, it explains it's answer and give further information on the SAT tests. It is an valuable site for college going teens."

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Wooz World is a "fun, unique and free virtual world for kids, tweens and teens. Create an avatar (Woozen), play online and join a community of millions of players. Our virtual world is the coolest place to hang-out and make new friends. You can create your own world, design your virtual space (Unitz), dress-up your avatar and accessories ever, become a top-model, throw parties and events, chat, invite friends, make new friends, join exciting contests, express your creativity and become rich and famous.

Do you have what it takes to become an icon in the coolest virtual world ever? Come play online and find out!"
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Cyberbully aired on ABC Family and can still be seen there, check your local listings or watch it instantly on Netflix. Movie Synopsis: Cyberbully follows Taylor Hillridge (Emily Osment), a teenage girl who falls victim to online bullying, and the cost it takes on her as well as her friends and family. Taylor's mom, Kris (Kelly Rowan), reels from the incident and takes on the school system and state legislation to help prevent others from going through the same harrowing ordeal as her daughter.
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