September 2007 Issue

Check out a video about L.A. Youth on YouTube.

Arctic Monkeys, Linkin Park and Ice Cube get thumbs up from our reviewers.

Trying to be more environmentally friendly travelers, four L.A. Youth teen staff writers tried to go a week without using a car. How did they do?

L.A. Youth teen staffers joined spent a Saturday joining with hundreds of others to pick up trash from the beach. WITH PHOTO GALLERY.

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From white-water rafting to watching an active volcano, a school trip showed me that science doesn’t have to be boring.

Last spring we asked our readers about their attitudes toward seeking help for mental health problems and how to make getting help more acceptable. Here are the answers from the 630 students who responded (thanks for helping us out!).

A website of secrets sent in by anonymous people
helped Devin, 16, deal with family problems.

Sure the school is bigger, there are more people and the classes are harder, but Sam discovered being a “lowly freshman” isn’t so bad.

Katherine, 18, was determined to learn before she started college.