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Junior High Up: 'A Teen-ager's First Car'

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In the following essay, Robert M. Hilton argues that Henry Gregor Felsen's book "A Teen-ager's First Car" is an essential read for teenagers, providing them with honest insights and useful advice on car ownership, including sales, contracts, insurance, repairs, and safety, while also capturing the interest of parents.

For some high school students, [A Teen-ager's First Car] will be one of the most important [books] they will ever read. Teen-agers who are still looking forward to acquiring their first car will find the honest presentation, disarming manner, and clear explanations to their liking and answering their needs. In his clever style. Mr. Felsen gives helpful analyses on sales for used cars, contracts, insurance, repairs, etc., as well as safety tips. Parents, too, will be interested readers.

Robert M. Hilton, "Junior High Up: 'A Teen-ager's First Car'," in School Library Journal, an appendix to Library Journal (reprinted from the January, 1967 issue of School Library Journal published by R. R. Bowker Co./A Xerox Corporation; copyright © 1967), Vol. 13, No. 5, January, 1967, p. 74.

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