Chocolate for a Teen's Dreams: Heartwarming Stories About Making Your Wishes Come True

by Kay Allenbaugh

Overview

Chocolate for a Teen's Dreams takes a spirited look at the importance of following your heart. These true stories, by contemporary teens and women with insightful recollections, capture the hope and promise of adolescence and the plans every young woman treasures amid academic demands, social obligations, and family pressures. The Chocolate storytellers reveal how desire and determination can turn vision into reality — and offer sage advice on what to do when things don't turn out exactly according to plan.
Chocolate for a Teen's Dreams presents a broad spectrum of wishes and frustrations — from waiting for that special guy to invite you to the prom to figuring out how to get into your first-choice college. Readers will discover their own ambitions and expectations, as well as their fears. They'll meet teens who overcame the odds to achieve their goals and women who learned from disappointment, laughed at their failures, and forged lives that are as rich and sweet as chocolate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780743237031
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	06/04/2003
Series:	Chocolate Series
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,106,699
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

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.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
I	In the Name of Love
	Worth Fighting For	5
	Of Horses and Dreams	8
	Labels and Love	11
	Crossroads	15
	My Mother's Cat	19
	Tips for Teen Dreams	22
	The Piano Lesson	24
II	A Rite of Passage
	Coconut Surprise	31
	The Difference of Ten Years	35
	Once Upon a Time	37
	Speaking Traumas	40
	Going Dutch	44
	Daring to Wear the Glass Slipper	47
	The Adonis	50
	One Fine Day	54
III	Fits and Starts
	Mimeo Madness	59
	Lessons from the School Nurse	62
	Camp Kanawauke	66
	Family Circus	70
	Pass It On	75
	In Kneed of Gratitude	78
	A Calculated Move	81
IV	More Than Enough
	Good Stock	87
	In the Sea of Average	90
	Through My Eyes Only	94
	Molly's Portrait	98
	Homecoming Hero	103
	The Pretty People	106
	Halftime Highlights	110
V	Young Wisdom Rocks
	The Element of Truth	115
	Brains, Books, and Boys	117
	Without Him	120
	The Strength to Change	124
	Cyber Chitchat	127
	Freeway of Love	130
VI	Why Me?
	The Long Run	137
	Baby-Sitting Nightmare	141
	Forever Eyes	144
	Lost and Found	148
	The Other Prize	151
	The Generation Gap Is Alive and Well	155
	Less Is More	158
	Backseat Blues	162
VII	Angels Here and There
	Mind Games	167
	Take Me Home	169
	The Best Teacher Ever	174
	Digging My Way Out	177
	Plum Trees and Bubble Gum	181
	Questions of the Heart	184
	Baseball's Bond	188
	More Chocolate Stories?	191
	Contributors	193
	Acknowledgments	205

Editorial Reviews

Gr 8 Up-A poignant collection of stories by women who have seen that life does go on past high school and first loves, past heartbreak and hardship, and that life is truly what you make of it. The 50 stories will give readers knowledge and experience that will help guide them as they listen to their hearts and strive to make their way in the world. Teens will be pleased with the variety of stories: they are bittersweet, humorous, inspiring, or heartbreaking. Each story is just the right length and readers will enjoy bouncing from one selection to the next. YAs new to this series will find themselves looking for the previous titles.-Elaine Baran Black, Gwinnett County Public Library, Lawrenceville, GA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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