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

by Allenbaugh, Kay

• ISBN13: 9780743237031
• ISBN10: 074323703X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-04
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

Chocolate for a Teen's Dreamstakes 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 Dreamspresents 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.

Author Biography

Kay Allenbaugh is a writer and speaker who is known as "The Caretaker of Stories for Women of the World." She lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon

Table of Contents

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