Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul Stories of Life, Love and Learning
by Canfield, Jack; Hansen, Mark Victor; Kirberger, KimberlyFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-08-28
Publisher(s): Backlist, LLC - a unit of Chicken Soup of the Soul Publishing LLC
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Summary
This first batch of Chicken Soup for Teens consists of 101 stories every teenager can relate to and learn from -- without feeling criticized or judged. This edition contains important lessons on the nature of friendship and love, the importance of belief in the future, and the value of respect for oneself and others, and much more.
Author Biography
Jack Canfield is co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor of The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. He is a leader in the field of personal transformation and peak performance and is currently CEO of the Canfield Training Group and Founder and Chairman of the Board of The Foundation for Self-Esteem. An internationally renowned corporate trainer and keynote speaker, he lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Mark Victor Hansen is a co-founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Mark Victor Hansen is a co-founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. xi |
| On Relationships | |
| Losing the "Us" | p. 3 |
| After a While | p. 7 |
| Soul Mates | p. 8 |
| The Miss of a Great "Miss" | p. 11 |
| My First Kiss, and then Some | p. 14 |
| First Kiss-First Lesson | p. 17 |
| Changes in Life | p. 25 |
| First Love | p. 28 |
| A High School Love not Forgotten | p. 31 |
| On Friendship | |
| The Gossiper | p. 36 |
| A Simple Christmas Card | p. 38 |
| Please Listen | p. 41 |
| She Told me it was Okay to Cry | p. 43 |
| Lessons in Friendship | p. 45 |
| Always Return your Phone Calls | p. 50 |
| My New Best Friend Retold | p. 52 |
| The Days of Cardboard Boxes | p. 54 |
| On Family | |
| She Didn't give up on me | p. 63 |
| Mama's Hands | p. 68 |
| Unconditional Mom | p. 70 |
| The Bible | p. 74 |
| The Birthday | p. 76 |
| The Home Run | p. 79 |
| My Big Brother | p. 80 |
| A Brother's Voice | p. 83 |
| A Famous Father | p. 87 |
| Lessons in Baseball | p. 89 |
| The Champ As told | p. 92 |
| I Love you, Dad | p. 94 |
| I Am Home | p. 97 |
| On Love and Kindness | |
| Tigress | p. 102 |
| Bright Heart | p. 106 |
| The Secret of Happiness | p. 109 |
| Reaching out to a Stranger | p. 111 |
| Smile | p. 115 |
| Mrs. Link | p. 117 |
| A Mason-Dixon Memory | p. 119 |
| A Gift for Two | p. 126 |
| Life Just Isn't | p. 128 |
| Tell the World for me | p. 131 |
| Like People First | p. 135 |
| Lilacs Bloom Every Spring | p. 139 |
| Paint Brush | p. 143 |
| On Learning | |
| Egg Lessons | p. 146 |
| The Cost of Gratefulness | p. 150 |
| I Try to Remember | p. 153 |
| Mrs. Virginia DeView, where are you? | p. 157 |
| What's Wrong? | p. 162 |
| The Eternal Gifts | p. 164 |
| Socrates Retold | p. 168 |
| Challenge Days As told to | p. 170 |
| Please Hear What I'm not Saying | p. 174 |
| I Am... | p. 176 |
| Sparky | p. 179 |
| If I Knew | p. 182 |
| Tough Stuff | |
| I'll Always be with you | p. 186 |
| My Story | p. 191 |
| Somebody Should have Taught him | p. 194 |
| Just One Drink | p. 196 |
| The Dance | p. 198 |
| The Premonition | p. 200 |
| Dead at 17 | p. 206 |
| "Gabby, you're Sooo Skinny" | p. 208 |
| Gold-Medal Winner | p. 212 |
| Desiderata | p. 214 |
| Making a Difference | |
| What is Success? | p. 218 |
| Be Cool... Stay in School! | p. 219 |
| The Leader | p. 223 |
| Courage in Action | p. 224 |
| Turning up your Light | p. 226 |
| The Oyster | p. 229 |
| Courage in a Fire | p. 231 |
| The Most Mature Thing I've Ever Seen | p. 236 |
| Broken Wing | p. 240 |
| Passing the Dream | p. 243 |
| Going for it! | |
| The Girl Next Door | p. 246 |
| I'll be Back | p. 249 |
| Just me | p. 257 |
| True Height | p. 259 |
| Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan | p. 264 |
| The Gravediggers of Parkview Junior High | p. 268 |
| Teenager's Bill of Rights | p. 272 |
| The Boy Who Talked with Dolphins | p. 274 |
| Wild Thing | p. 282 |
| To Track Down My Dream | p. 285 |
| From Crutches to a World-Class Runner | p. 287 |
| If | p. 289 |
| No-Hair Day | p. 291 |
| I Did it! | p. 294 |
| Growing | p. 297 |
| New Beginnings | p. 298 |
| Who is Jack Canfield? | p. 301 |
| Who is Mark Victor Hansen? | p. 302 |
| Who is Kimberly Kirberger? | p. 303 |
| Contributors | p. 304 |
| Permissions (continued) | p. 313 |
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