If you want to know the truth... Sometimes Im not sure who I am anymore. Thirteen. Its an age of wonder...or dread. The best year of your life...or maybe the worst ever. Youve just become an official teenager even though youre not quite sure you feel like one but youre no longer a kid either. Here from fourteen different points of view are stories about that wonderful terrible time. The big bar mitzvah that goes suddenly wildly hilariously out of control. A first kiss -- and a realization about ones sexual orientation. A crush on a girl that ends up putting the boy who likes her in the hospital. A pair of sneakers that a kid has to have no matter what. Written by some of todays finest writers for young adults these stories -- by turns funny and sad wrenching and moving -- truly capture the agony and ecstasy of being thirteen.