Branded: The Buying And Selling Of Teenagers
 

Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers

by Alissa Quart


Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work for corporations in exchange for product; the girls obsessed with cosmetic surgery who will do anything to look like women... (read more)

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Although I haven't finished the book, it has opened my eyes to the Branded world. I have never been the type to buy brand name clothes, and this made me dislike them even more. I would recommend it for kids age 13 and up because it tells the whole truth. It is slightly scary but it is non-fiction after all.

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