There Is Nothing Wrong With You for Teens (Paperback)

~ Cheri Huber (Author), June Shiver (Illustrator)

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Grade 9 & Up--Huber explores the Zen perspectives of self-awareness, self-examination, and self-acceptance for this audience with mixed results. She suggests that teens have heard negative comments from their earliest days, which teach a self-hatred that is difficult to refute and leads to attempts to change that fail because they go against an individual's true nature. Instead, she urges readers to accept themselves with compassion. There are kernels of wisdom for those who are willing to delve beneath the psychobabble that permeates this book. For example, Huber says, "We can ask, `What is outside the realm of compassion? What is not cared for?' And we can bring that into the healing light of compassion by simply acknowledging it, accepting it, allowing it." Some teens may respond to this sort of language by using it as an opportunity for self-examination, but others may get swallowed up in the verbiage and be unable to respond in the manner intended by the author. For inclusive self-help collections.-Susan Riley, Mount Kisco Public Library
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Product Description

Based on surveys and interviews with hundreds of teenagers about what does and does not work in their lives, how they perceive the adult world they are about to enter, and what they want adults to know about them, There Is Nothing Wrong With You for Teens provides communication techniques to empower teenagers to take the lead in the conversation that must happen between teens and adults.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Paperback: 276 pages
• Publisher: Keep It Simple Books (October 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963625594
• ISBN-13: 978-0963625595
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #555,937 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Written in a highly accessible and skimmable style, January 12, 2002

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

There Is Nothing Wrong With You: For Teens is a spiritual, self-help book written to help not just young people from emotionally abusive backgrounds, but all people who have learned to unfairly and over-harshly criticize themselves. There Is Nothing Wrong With You: For Teens is a positive affirmation of the good people have inside, even if they have grave difficulty in seeing it themselves. The atypical typeface resembles hand-printed lettering, conveying emotion but remaining eminently readable. Enthusiastically recommended and a welcome addition to the growing library self-help literature, There Is Nothing Wrong With You: For Teens is written in a highly accessible and skimmable style, for readers of all attention spans.