Teen Experts serve up Chicken Soup for the Soul: Extra helpings of advice from peers

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 9, 2006 -- CONTACT: Erika Sumner, PR by the Book, (281) 895-7190, erika@prbythebook.com

(SEATTLE) Failing grades, dating dilemmas and just fitting in are only a few of the tough challenges facing today�s tweens and teens. And with Hollywood starlets (such as Mary Kate Olsen publicly battling anorexia), the pressures facing teens are obvious. While good intending parents and teachers may offer advice, seldom do they really know where teens are coming from. So who better to hear advice from than other teens?

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal Challenges: Stories about Disses, Losses, Messes, Stresses and More offers straight talk from fellow teens on �real� problems along with sound advice. Packed with original teen written poems, pop culture trivia, quizzes on how to handle real-life situations, The Real Deal Challenges: Stories about Disses, Losses, Messes, Stresses and More uses teens� stories with a �been there done that� approach, covering topics like: bratty brothers, self esteem, peer pressure, unfair teachers, parental divorce, illness, and death.

Readers will find comfort in this special helping of Chicken Soup which presents helpful advice in a language young adults will find entertaining and therapeutic. Some of the chapters include:
� Emotional Basket Case
� Who Am I Hurting?
� Losing It
� Stabbed in the Back
� Finding Your Voice

Deborah Reber is a teen and tween expert who�s most recently co-authored Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul�s The Real Deal: Friendship and writing the first books in a new series for PBS�s teen website, It�s My Life and Nickelodeon�s tween girl property, EverGirl. Reber is the co-editor and co-publisher of Bold Ink: Collective Voices of Women and Girls. Before becoming a full-time writer, Reber worked in Children�s Television developing original programming for Cartoon Network, managing projects for Blues Clues (Nickelodeon), and producing an international campaign championing children�s rights for UNICEF. She resides in Seattle, WA.
Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen are the #1 New York Times and USA Today best-selling authors of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. They are professional speakers who have dedicated their lives to enhancing the personal and professional development of others.

For more information, check out http://www.hcibooks.com. To schedule an interview, please contact Erika Sumner, PR by the Book, (281) 895-7190, Erika@prbythebook.com.

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