Teen was an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 teen lifestyle magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 for preteen and early teenage

Adolescence

Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development generally occurring between puberty and legal adulthood , but largely characterized as beginning and ending with the teenage stage...

 girls, ages 10 to 15. The content of Teen included advice, entertainment news, quizzes, fashion, beauty, celebrity role models, and "real-girl stories".

Content

The magazine had nine sections: New Stuff, Tech Girl, Celeb Stuff, Celebs, Look, Fashion, Get Real, Absolutely You, and More. New Stuff was a section that talks about anything recently released that is attractive to its readership, such as technology, accessories, clothes, and makeup. The Tech Girl section was specifically about technology, especially "trendy" technology and game reviews.

Celeb Stuff included reviews of movies, television shows, books, and music, young celebrity quotes, celebrity fashion and makeup tips, and a celebrity style quiz, while Celebs was a section that includes celebrity facts, quotes, essays, and predictions, as well as a few posters of teen stars and a quiz.

The Look section concerned beauty articles, such as those concerning hair and makeup. Fashion was a clothing section that talked about knits, jeans, clothes for individual body shapes, crafts, and a quiz.

Get Real consisted of articles written by actual teenagers. The articles included "True Stories from Real Teens", where teens send in their personal essays, "Ask Sophi", an advice column for dating questions, and a quiz. Absolutely You has advice and quizzes about your personal life, crushes, and body. More, at the end of the magazine, included fortune telling, a fictional story, horoscopes, comics, and "Why Me?", a collection of embarrassing stories from readers' real life experiences.

Music

The magazine released Teen Mag Music 2000 Volume 1, a compilation music CD that featured music by Hanson

Hanson (band)

Hanson are an American pop rock band formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by brothers Isaac , Taylor , and Zac Hanson . They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere, which earned three Grammy nominations...

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Closure

Following the closure of its Cosmogirl in October, Hearst Magazines decided in January 2009 to end publication of "Teen" magazine. The winter 2008 issues was the last. A spokesperson said “We will continue to publish the annual Teen Prom issue but will focus our teen publishing efforts on the Seventeen

Seventeen (magazine)

Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...

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