Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal Friends: Best, Worst, Old, New, Lost, False, True and More (Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: the Real Deal) (Chicken Soup for the Soul) [Kindle Edition]

Jack Canfield (Author)

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Product Description

Friends. You gotta have 'em, but sometimes they drive you crazy. You love 'em, but sometimes they make you mad. They'll help you through a crisis...unless they are the crisis.

So What's the Deal?

Friends are more than just the people you hang out with. They make you laugh, they keep your secrets, they offer advice (some good, some bad), they give you a shoulder to cry on. Sometimes they move away, or betray your trust, or flake out, but mostly they are the people who are always there for you. And they know you'll be there when they need you most. Because that's what it means to be a friend.

Sometimes friendship is overwhelming, sometimes it's confusing, sometimes you feel like you don't have a friend in the world, but don't worry, it's like that for everyone. That's what the stories in this book are all about. They're from real teens, and they're about the bizarre, difficult and wonderful things that really happened to them and their friends. Put that together with weird facts, cool graphics, fun advice and quizzes designed to help you figure out what you and your friends are all about, and you've got the real deal on friendship!

About the Author

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen are the bestselling co-creators of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Deborah Reber, a former children's television executive, is a young adult author who specializes in collaborative work. She resides in Seattle, WA.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1180 KB
• Print Length: 320 pages
• Publisher: Health Communications (November 1, 2005)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001OD41M0
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #331,423 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Debbie Reber hails from Reading, Pennsylvania, a city best known as the home of the 'Reading Railroad' from Monopoly and darned good pretzels.


Debbie graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Broadcast & Cable. (This was back in the stone ages when 'cable television' was a new phenomenon'it got its own major!). After graduation, she moved to NYC to make it big in the world of broadcast news, just like Holly Hunter's character in the movie by the same name. When that didn't happen, she decided to save the world instead, and produced videos, PSAs (public service announcements) and documentaries for CARE, UNICEF and the PBS show Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television.

While living in NYC, Debbie apparently decided that working fulltime didn't keep her busy enough, so she simultaneously attended The New School for Social Research, where she earned her MA in Media Studies, with a focus on documentary and media criticism.

With even more student loans to pay off, Debbie left the world of nonprofit and jumped into children's television, where she worked on Blue's Clues for Nickelodeon and developed original programming for Cartoon Network. It was while working at Cartoon Network that she sold her first book, Run for Your Life: A Book for Beginning Women Runners.

She loved the process of writing a book, and loved seeing her name in print even more. So in 2003, Debbie turned in the key to her corporate office and traded it in for a lime green Ikea chair, an all-in-one desk unit and a tiny corner of her den to eke out a living as a fulltime writer. She's never looked back. (Okay, there was that one time she looked back, but that was a while ago, and since then, things have been going smashingly well).

Debbie has written a number of books for teens, tweens and even preschoolers, including the new series from Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, The Real Deal and more than a dozen Blue's Clues books. Her latest book, In Their Shoes: Amazing Women Describing Amazing Jobs (Simon Pulse) comes out in April 2007.

Debbie lives in Seattle with her strikingly handsome husband Derin, adorable little boy Asher and trusty, white German Shepherd, Baxter. She is a volunteer running coach with the Puget Sound chapter of Girls on the Run, and an advisory board member for the teen girl mentoring organization, WriteGirl.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOKS!, April 26, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal Friends: Best, Worst, Old, New, Lost, False, True and More (Chicken Soup for the Soul) (Paperback)

Chicken Soup the Real Deal: Friends

I just recently read Chicken Soup the Real Deal: Friends. This book is a very good book. It tells many stories of people who are really close to others, or have had a problem with friends in the past. I think that Chicken Soup books are very easy to read, it also doesn't take long to read them if you can relate to the stories in them. I have always loved reading these books. I think you'll really enjoy the stories. I guess I like them because it just makes me feel happy knowing that other people besides me get embarrassed too, and they always cheer me up knowing that the stories in these are real and not stories that the authors make up. I think that most people who do read these books really do enjoy reading them. If you like to read about other people's lives you should try a Chicken Soup book. These books are very good books. I urge you to read them!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Holiday Gift!!, November 9, 2005

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This review is from: Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal Friends: Best, Worst, Old, New, Lost, False, True and More (Chicken Soup for the Soul) (Paperback)

I saw this book listed as one of Barnes and Nobles holiday gift ideas... and it is! I got several copies for all my friends who have teenagers (and for my teenage niece and nephews). The book does a wonderful job of getting the teenagers point of view across through the personal stories, reflections and interviews. It's not an adult's idea of what today's teenage experience is all about (let's face it, many of us are long past that trying time) but approaches it from their point of view and articulates in a readable entertaining format for adults and teens. Another great addition to this terrific series.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Chicken Soup, December 22, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal Friends: Best, Worst, Old, New, Lost, False, True and More (Chicken Soup for the Soul) (Paperback)

This was my first Chicken Soup for the Sould series I ever read. This book was inspiring and heart warming. It really made me stand up for many things. I give this book 5 stars!