Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: Stories of Life, Love and Learning

Table of Contents:
Introduction -- 1. On Relationships -- Losing the Us / Lia Gay -- After a While / Veronica A. Shoffstall -- Soul Mates / Fran Leb -- The Miss of a Great Miss / Jack Schlatter -- My First Kiss, and then Some / Mary Jane West-Delgado -- First Kiss-First Lesson / Jennifer Braunschweiger -- Changes in Life / Sheila K. Reyman -- First Love / Mary Ellen Klee -- A High School Love not Forgotten / Diana L. Chapman -- 2. On Friendship -- The Gossiper / Author Unknown -- A Simple Christmas Card / Theresa Peterson -- Please Listen / Stacia Gilmer -- She Told me it was Okay to Cry / Daphan Renan -- Lessons in Friendship / A. J. Langer -- Always Return your Phone Calls / Anonymous -- My New Best Friend Retold / Kimberly Kirberger -- The Days of Cardboard Boxes / Eva Burke -- 3. On Family -- She Didn't give up on me / Sharon Whitley -- Mama's Hands / Tommi Jo Casteel -- Unconditional Mom / Sarah J. Vogt -- The Bible / Beckah Fink -- The Birthday / Melissa Esposito -- The Home Run / Terri Vandermark -- My Big Brother / Lisa Gumenick -- A Brother's Voice / James Malinchak -- A Famous Father / Author Unknown -- Lessons in Baseball / Chick Moorman -- The Champ As told / Nailah Malik, Vela Storyteller -- I Love you, Dad / Nick Curry III -- I Am Home / Jennie Garth -- 4. On Love and Kindness -- Tigress / Judith S. Johnessee -- Bright Heart / Jennifer Love Hewitt -- The Secret of Happiness / The Speaker's Sourcebook -- Reaching out to a Stranger / Barbara A. Lewis -- Smile / Barbara Hauck -- Mrs. Link / Susan Daniels Adams -- A Mason-Dixon Memory / Clifton Davis -- A Gift for Two / Andrea Hensley -- Life Just Isn't / Katie Leicht -- Tell the World for me / John Powell -- Like People First / Kent Nerburn -- Lilacs Bloom Every Spring / Blue jean magazine -- Paint Brush / Bettie B. Youngs -- 5. On Learning -- Egg Lessons / Kimberly Kirberger -- The Cost of Gratefulness / Randal Jones -- I Try to Remember / Author Unknown -- Mrs. Virginia DeView, where are you? / Diana L. Chapman -- What's Wrong? / The Speaker's Sourcebook -- The Eternal Gifts / Jack Schlatter -- Socrates Retold / Eric Saperston -- Challenge Days As told to / Andrew Tertes -- Please Hear What I'm not Saying / Charles C. Finn -- I Am... / Amy Yerkes -- Sparky / Earl Nightingale -- If I Knew / Kimberly Kirberger -- 6. Tough Stuff -- I'll Always be with you / Dale, Dar Emme -- My Story / Lia Gay -- Somebody Should have Taught him / Jane Watkins -- Just One Drink / Chris Laddish -- The Dance / Tony Arata -- The Premonition / Bruce Burch -- Dead at 17 / John Berrio -- Gabby, you're Sooo Skinny / Gabriella Tortes -- Gold-Medal Winner / Rick Metzger -- Desiderata / Max Ehrmann -- 7. Making a Difference -- What is Success? / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Be Cool... Stay in School! / Jason Summey -- The Leader / Tony Overman -- Courage in Action / Bill Sanders -- Turning up your Light / Eric Allenbaugh -- The Oyster / Author Unkown -- Courage in a Fire / Barbara A. Lewis -- The Most Mature Thing I've Ever Seen / Chris Blake -- Broken Wing / Jim Hullihan -- Passing the Dream / Penny Caldwell -- 8. Going for it! -- The Girl Next Door / Amanda Dykstra -- I'll be Back / Jack Cavanaugh -- Just me / Tom Krause -- True Height / David Naster -- Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan / Helen Keller -- The Gravediggers of Parkview Junior High / Kif Anderson -- Teenager's Bill of Rights / Lia Gay et al. -- The Boy Who Talked with Dolphins / Paula McDonald -- Wild Thing / Jennifer Philbin -- To Track Down My Dream / Ashley Hodgeson -- From Crutches to a World-Class Runner / The Speaker's Sourcebook -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- No-Hair Day / Jennifer Rosenfeld, Alison Lambert -- I Did it! / Mark E. Smith -- Growing / Brooke Mueller -- New Beginnings / Paula (Bachleda), Koskey -- Who is Jack Canfield? -- Who is Mark Victor Hansen? -- Who is Kimberly Kirberger? -- Contributors -- Permissions (continued).

Biographical Note:
Jack Canfield is co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul(R) 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.

Contributor Bio:Canfield, Jack
Jack Canfield is co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul(R) 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.

Contributor Bio:Hansen, Mark Victor
Mark Victor Hansen is a co-founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul.