When you are a preteen you walk around every day with the knowledge that your body is about to
change. You don’t know exactly when or how. All you know is that it will happen and you will come out the other side a different person. We hear from kids who are reluctantly facing puberty … any minute now.
(4 1/2 minutes)
More in Childhood
Act One: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave
Ira talks to producer Elna Baker about the time she and her siblings found themselves trapped in a hotel room with an unexpected visitor.
Act Four: Resurrection
Writer Brady Udall with another story about what animals can take the place of, in our lives and in our homes—this one involving an armadillo.
Act Two: History is Not a Toy
There’s a museum in Baltimore that was created to memorialize the black experience in America.
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Harper High School - Part One
We spent five months at a high school in Chicago where in the last year 29 current and recent students were shot.
Harper High School - Part Two
Part two of our program on Harper High School in Chicago, where in the last year 29 current and recent students were shot.