Got Your Back: Dealing with Friends and Enemies

Essential Health: A Guy's Guide

by Ryan Basen

Got Your Back features fictional narratives paired with firsthand advice from a licensed psychologist to help preteen and teen boys learn how to be a friend and resolve conflicts along the way. A table of contents, additional resources, a glossary, and an index are included. A Guy's Guide is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

112 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

I am studying for a PhD in Physical Cultural Studies with the University of Maryland's Kinesiology Department. I take classes, conduct research per my independent study, and work as a teacher's assistant.

I have written books aimed at preteens, including sports biographies and special topics, for Red Line Editorial (2006-present). I also composed a couple of reports for the NPR affailiate WFAE-FM in Charlotte, and wrote features for the regional monthly Charlotte Magazine (2009-2010).

During the 2009 NFL season, I wrote a fantasy football blog and covered the Carolina Panthers for the professional blog site SB Nation (2009 season).