The many faces of urban girls: Features of positive development in early adolescence

Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 19-52

  Lerner, Richard M ^a   Phelps, Erin ^a   Alberts, Amy ^a   Forman, Yulika ^a   Christiansen, Elise D ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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