Best Books for Teens Recovering from Sexual Abuse
Discover the best books for teens recovering from sexual abuse, offering healing, support, and empowerment. Find expert-recommended reads to guide recovery and resilience.
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Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff
by Jack Canfield
This latest offering in the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soulseries explores a host of challenges faced by today's teens. Within itspages teens will find portraits of life's complexities expressed from theviewpoint of their peers. Teen contributors share their thoughts and feelings ondifficult issues, ranging from poor self-image to thoughts of suicide, fromfamily discord to coping with the loss, from peer pressure to school violence. Teens ranked stress as one of their top concerns (along with child abuse andSTDs). Oftentimes, the pressure can feel overwhelming, whether they involveworrying about an upcoming test, competition sports, family responsibilities,dating, or more extreme issues such as depression, suicide and school violence. The first three volumes of the Teenage Soul series and the companionjournal illustrate the ongoing popularity of this series (unit sales exceed 11million). Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff and the Spring2001 release Teenage Soul Letters will undoubtedly follow suit as thenext best-sellers in a phenomenally popular series.
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The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch
Reflections of a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor who lectured on "Really achieving your childhood dreams," shortly after having been diagnosed with terminal cancer. His advice concerned seizing the moment while living, rather than dying.
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Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens
by Spencer Johnson
Help a teen you know deal with the changes in his or her life with the book that has helped so many others. ?Cheese? is a metaphor for what you want in life and the book gives teens a fun vocabulary and way to understand change and move forward in their lives.
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, and their survival.
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God Does Not Like Ugly
by Mary Monroe
"Frightened and ashamed, budding teenager Annette Goode, a shy, awkward, overweight girl hides the devastating secret that her mother's boarder has been sexually abusing her, until her life is changed forever by the beautiful and worldly Rhoda Nelson"--Publisher description.
