Chocolate For A Teen's Soul: Life-changing Stories For Young Women About Growing Wise And Growing Strong [Paperback]

Kay Allenbaugh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 8, 2000

Rich, enticing, and delectable as a luscious box of chocolates, this collection offers 55 tales of life and love as a teenager. From teens of every age, including women who remember what it was like, come stories of first love, first jobs, best friends, heartbreak, hope, innocence, and the real world. Poignant, funny, and powerful, these stories tell it like it is. From the recollection of a first kiss to tales of self-consciousness about a changing body, from painful struggles with parents and grandparents to the joy of abiding family love, teens will see themselves in these pages and find comfort in knowing that they are not alone.

Editorial Reviews

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Iyanla Vanzant author of Don't Give It Away Here is the truth about learning to live and love from women who have been there. Read it!

Carmen Renee Berry coauthor of Girlfriends and Daddies and Daughters Chocolate for a Teen's Soul provides wisdom that women of any age need to live life with grace and stamina. Wish I had had something like this when I was young!

Marianne Williamson author of A Return to Love and Enchanted Love These warm and wonderful stories show young women how precious they are and how fabulous they can become!

Sean Covey bestselling author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens Inspiring, real-life stories that will cheer the soul and lighten the mind and breathe hope into the life of every teen.

About the Author

Kay Allenbaugh, creator of the Chocolate series, is a writer and speaker who is known as "The Caretaker of Stories for Women of the World." She lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Contributors to the Chocolate series include bestselling authors, motivational speakers, newspaper columnists, radio hosts, spiritual leaders, psychotherapists, businesswomen, and teenagers from all over the world.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: A Fireside Book; Original edition (August 8, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684870819
• ISBN-13: 978-0684870816
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #880,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From a teacher in Nevada, October 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Chocolate For A Teen's Soul: Life-changing Stories For Young Women About Growing Wise And Growing Strong (Paperback)

Chocolate for a Teen's Soul is one of many choices available in my classroom for SSR (silent sustained reading) which my school conducts on a continuous and rotating basis. The young women in my class choose it first and we have to have a sign up to reserve it for the next day! It is a favorite and stimulates conversation about problem solving and leads to sharing of similar situations. Because of the response of the teen's in my classroom, I have purchased one for every young woman on my Christmas list!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Who's reviewing?, October 9, 2000

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Mimi DiFrancesca "lightseven" (Michigan USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chocolate For A Teen's Soul: Life-changing Stories For Young Women About Growing Wise And Growing Strong (Paperback)

I'd like to have reviewers add their age to their review. It seems like the one who didn't like the book was a teen and the ones who did were older. Trying to buy this for my teen daughter- I'd rather hear from kids her age than other Moms. What might be nostalgia for us, may be irrelevant for our daughters.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Life Changing Stories, January 25, 2002

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gaby molina, a 13 year old reader (El Salvador) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chocolate For A Teen's Soul: Life-changing Stories For Young Women About Growing Wise And Growing Strong (Paperback)

Chocolate for a Teen's Soul is a book of experiences. It is a book of stories about friend betrayal, or a good friendship, of love, death, illness, struggle, and other topics about life as a teenager. It's a book of emotions filled with happy thoughts and sad thought. It may give you a laugh or tears, or an amused face; it will make you fill what the writer felt at the moment.
The authors of these stories narrate their stories so well it makes you see the things happening as you read. They make you cry or even laugh. The characters and writers express their fillings from tough moments, embarrassing moments, sad moments, and joyful moments of their lives. It also shares with us experiences to learn form, mistakes they made and wrong ways they took as teens.
I liked this book because I like reading about real life experiences, especially experiences about people that are at my age and going through similar things that I am going through. I learned from these stories how important it is to cherish every moment with each person because you really know when they're not going to be here anymore. I learned not to ignore the small things about life because later when we look at the past we may notice that those small things were actually the big things of life.
My favorite stories were the love stories. There were stories that said how love felt. They described every moment going inside them when they felt that emotion that they became speechless, and that they felt butterflies in their stomach. How they became a fairy tale and then suddenly the fairy tale ends in such a tragic way, that it makes me cry. Lives me wanting to fill that great emotion that that person once felt.
Personally I loved this books, the stories were the greatest!