A spokesman for North Melbourne said the teenager, who is 194 centimeters tall and is still growing, had "enormous potential" to succeed at the highest level of the Australian Rules Football League, a nationwide organization with 16 professional teams.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

(Music: "God Bless The Child") Eartha Kitt lived on the streets and worked in a factory as a young teenager.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Peyroux first began performing popular jazz and blues songs as a teenager in the streets of Paris,France.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

Audrey studied dance as a teenager and during college when she returned to London after the war.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

It tells the story of a teenager named Bella Swan who falls in love with an unusual high school classmate named Edward Cullen.

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It is about an extremely overweight black teenager in the Harlem area of New York City.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Another best picture nominee about a teenager is "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Mister Rockower has traveled and studied outside the United States since he was a teenager.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

Precious is an extremely overweight black teenager in the Harlem area of New York City.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

He abused drugs and was jailed for robbery by the time he was a teenager.

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Greg Ogden would agree with that. "I think probably some of the nicest ones, the more memorable ones are back when I was a teenager.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

As a teenager she went to live with the man she considers her father.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

Another nominated film, "An Education." tells the story of a British teenager.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

"The Blind Side" is another nominated film about a black teenager.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

The main character, played by best actress nominee Gabourey Sidibe, is a troubled and overweight African American teenager.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

The lanky teenager began playing Australian Rules Football just four years ago but has made history by becoming the first player from Africa to join the professional league,the AFL.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

In the 2008 hit Twilight, she fell in love with Edward, the eternally young teenager of the Cullen clan of vampires who have chosen to live among humans and resist the temptation to eat them.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23