Chocolate for a Teens Soul: Lifechanging Stories for Young Women about Growing Wise and Growing Strong

By Kay Allenbaugh

Book Overview

From the bestselling Chocolate series, a powerful collection for teenagers offering true stories about growing wise and growing strong.

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684870819
• ISBN13: 9780684870816
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Outside book review

This book is full of life altering stories. This book helps teen's know that they are not alone in all of their doubts and problems. There are stories of real life events, such as first loves, kisses, and first experiences. There are stories of best friends, and worst foes. These stories help a teen with their everyday trials and tribulations. This book shows that teenagers are not alone in the every day problems that they are associated with. The teen's of today believe that they are the only one's that have these problems, and once they read this book they see that other people have these problems too, and they dont feel like they are alone in the world, and they feel comforted in the things they read in the book because it helps them feel more comfortable with themselves, and their insecurities. That's why i chose this book, because it helps all teen's with everyday problems. This book in my opinion deserves 5 stars.

A Delight

I gave this book to my 12 year old granddaughter who was spending the day with me and helping me around the house. Unfortnately, I gave it to her before we had completed the work we were doing--she began reading the book and I finished the work by myself. This is a wonderful book. It is full of meaningful stories dealing with many of the issues that we all must deal with getting through the teen years. Thank heaven for Kay Allenbaugh--as with all of her books;I laugh, I cry and I remember things in my life that I had forgotten about.

From a teacher in Nevada

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!

Who's reviewing?

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.

Chocolate for a Teen's Soul: Life-Changing Stories for Young

I received an advance copy of this wonderful book. It sparked my imagination for the future and revisited images of my past. Kay has once again selected excellent stories about life in the world of women. These stories portray a wealth of insight, warmth, caring, and faith. Thank you and may everyone find chocolate on their pillow each and every night.