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Chicken Soup Teenage Soul II(101 more stories of Life, Love and Learning)Chicken Soup Teenage Soul II is a book not only for teens of course. This book is the second one of the authors Jack Canfield, Mark Viktor Hansen, Kim Kirberger. The title of the book is rather interesting for me. Chicken soup is very delicious and everybody likes it. When I was a child, my grandmother often told me that it was not only a soup it could be a medicine as well. I did not really understand it. Later when my first daughter was born and she sent me some chicken soup, of course, I began to understand why she treated us with it. When I ate it the soup was as warm and delightful as a good advice or a heartening word. So when I handed this book I was curious whether these collected stories can give the same feeling for its readers as a chicken soup can give for us? What kind of stories are these and why are they so special? The coauthors are very popular in America they are professional speakers who help people be better in their personal life. They are the coauthors of eight New York Times bestsellers. The Chicken Soup for the Soul series have 112 million copies in print in over 40 languages. Another interesting fact that Jack Canfield holds the Guinness Book World Record for having seven books simultaneously on the New York Times Bestseller.The way as the stories present the actual problems of teens is unique and I am sure this is the reason of its popularity. On the bookmarket we can easily find different kind of books for teenagers and their parents in which both desperate parents and children can read several ways of solutions of their problems. Experienced psychologists and educators try to help with their better and better advice from their point of them. But This book was written by the teens’ point of view and “contains more stories actually written by teenagers.” The characters are the youth themselves and through the stories we can realise their problems and their thoughts. The readers are able to identify themselves with the problem and they can discover they are not alone. They feel the same and it may help to solve their personal troubles.The structure of the book reflects the authors’ aims, there are eight main parts, each part is about what teenagers have experienced through their life. They are: On Relationships, On Family, On Love and Kindness, Tough Stuff, On Family, Learning Lessons, Making a Difference and Growing Up. Thinking over the topics I realized that they deal with the main problems that teens have. Before them there is an Acknowledgement, a very engaging Introduction, and a Share with Us chapter, all of them prepare the teens how to use, how to read the stories. I like the way as the author encourage the youth “We encourage you to return to this book again and again, much like the way you would call on a friend"Every chapter has a citation, under the main title, which contains the main idea of the next stories. These short summaries are very effective and they set off chain of ideas as preparing the reader for the next topic.It is not a common thing that a book deals with a psychological topic contains illustrations and jokes as well. These illustrations help the teens understand the gist of their problems and maybe they will be able to laugh at them too. My opinion is that both the practical and theoretical usage of the book is great. As a form teacher I often use the text as a starting point of a topic in my class and as a parent I often hand it when I do not want to forget the time when I was a teenager and I would like to call back my memories and my feelings in order to understand my own daughters as well. So the reason why I offer it not only for our youth is that I think everybody needs these warmhearted stories. The style is light, the sentences are easy to understand so it can be even relaxing too. I am sure everybody can find his or her stories. I have found mine. ................
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