“13 is the New 18” by Park Slope’s Beth Harpaz is out in paperback this Tuedsay, January 26. Inspired by her AP story of the same name, the book chronicles a year in the adolescent life of her 13-year-old son, when the author nearly had a nervous breakdown being his mother.

Harpaz takes the reader through the teenage world of  iPods, baggy clothes, lewd song lyrics, new friends,  school and MORE. She writes funny and smart about this difficult phase in the parent/child relationship.

OSFO turns 13 on March 19th. Yikes.