More Taste Berries for Teens: A Second Collection of Inspirational Short Stories and Encouragement on Life, Love, Friendship, and Tough Issues

Like its best-selling predecessor, this book deftly combines teen contributions and responses with the commentary and sensitive advice of coauthors Bettie B. Youngs, Ph.D., Ed.D., and Jennifer Leigh Youngs, showing teens that we each can make life better through our love and compassion.

This book will focus on the themes similar to the ones handled in the first volume and the journal, including: self-worth; friendship; love and relationships; parents and teens; how to create an attitude for life success; how to decide what to do in life; how to give, share and make a difference; and how to cope with stress-filled and embarrassing moments.

As with the other volumes in this series, teens are sure to find that this book will help them connect with their innermost feelings, identify their fondest dreams and turn them into reality, and, most important, recognize that they are not alone in what they encounter or how they feel.

More Taste Berries for Teens is sure to become a treasured companion and trusted guide to all its readers as they journey toward making their lives better and brighter.

Bettie B. Youngs, PH.D., ED.D., a former Teacher of the Year, is a professional speaker and the internationally renowned author of nineteen books translated into twenty-nine languages. Along with her daughter, Jennifer Leigh Youngs, she is the coauthor of the runaway bestseller, Taste Berries for Teens: Inspirational Short Stories and Encouragement on Life, Love, Friendship and Tough Issues; and Taste Berries for Teens Journal: My Thoughts on Life, Love and Making a Difference. She has appeared frequently on CNN, NBC Nightly News and Oprah. The Washington Post, USA Today, Redbook, McCall's, Family Circle, Working Woman, U.S. News and World Report and Parents Magazine all have recognized her work. Her acclaimed books include Safeguarding Your Teenager from the Dragons of Life; Taste-Berry Tales; the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Gifts of the Heart; and the award-winning Values from the Heartland.

Jennifer Leigh Youngs, a former Miss Teen California finalist and a Rotary International Exchange Scholar, is nationally recognized speaker and workshop presenter. She serves on a number of advisory boards for teens, and is the international youth coordinator for Airline Ambassadors, an international organization affiliated with the United Nations and dedicated to involving young people in programs worldwide to build cross-cultural friendships and deliver humanitarian aid to those in need around the globe. Jennifer is also the author of Feeling Great, Looking Hot and Loving Yourself!: Health, Fitness and Beauty for Teens; Goal-Setting Skills for Young Adults; and A Stress Management Guide for Teens. The Youngs are based out of Del Mar, California.