This collection contains inspirational short stories and encouragement on life, love and friends--including the one in the mirror!

Inspiring stories and poems offer support and advice for teenagers coping with divorce, driving, making friends, falling in love, and becoming adults.

Youngs inspires readers with 25 poignant short stories of people who make a difference in the lives of others. By their example, these individuals show readers how to use their daily lives to improve the world they live in and the lives of others.

The Taste Berries for Teens series has always brought teens valuable insights and provided inspiration for making the most of life. Just as the taste berry convinces the taste buds that all food-even distasteful food-is delicious, so the inspiration in this book will sweeten teens' lives with a special thought and affirmation for each day of the year. The desire to be a greater taste berry-to live a richer and more meaningful life-is both natural and noble. This book supports teens as they "Go for it!" each day. Filled with cherished affirmations from the six previous Taste Berry books, each day's message offers encouragement, inspiration and direction-powerful reminders that support teens as they strive to achieve their personal best. In these pages, teens will be reminded of the power of love, friendship, integrity, compassion, service, forgiveness, and many other traits and qualities that will inspire them to live with meaning and purpose. These easy-to-remember affirmations are gems of truth and wisdom-powerful remedies for distraction, discouragement or confusion. Uplifting, loving, motivating and practical, these taste-berry morsels will instill in teens the highest ideals and inspire them daily to achieve self-fulfillment.

Taste Berries for Teens deftly combined teen contributions and responses with the commentary and sensitive advice of adult coauthors, showing teens that we each can make life better through our love and compassion. Designed as a companion piece for Taste Berries for Teens, this journal offers teens space to write about their own feelings on self-worth; friendship; love and relationships; 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. In Taste Berries for Teens Journal, coauthors Bettie B. Youngs, Ph.D., Ed.D., and Jennifer Leigh Youngs will also provide commentary to help readers use the journal to sort out their feelings, responsibly deal with their difficulties and effectively solve their problems. Teens will be able to use this journal not only to express their innermost feelings, explore unlimited possibilities and describe their fondest dreams, but also-and even more important-to turn those possibilities and dreams into reality. This journal is sure to become the trusted companion and guide of all who use it, as they journey toward making their lives better and brighter.

In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.

What are the choices the Asia-Pacific community will face if it proceeds further down the path of developing preferential regional trading arrangements? Fragmentation of the region into preferential trading arrangements on a bilateral or subregional basis promises relatively little economic gain and considerable risk of increased trade conflict. Larger preferential trading blocs, spanning the whole of East Asia, the Western Pacific, or the APEC membership, offer greater potential economic benefits but also face formidable political obstacles. In this study, Scollay and Gilbert weigh the economic consequences of the increased use of preferential trading arrangements in the Asia-Pacific region, whether these develop on the basis of trans-Pacific cooperation or solely within the East Asian or Western Pacific sub-regions. They evaluate the economic effects of both the existing proposals for new bilateral and multilateral agreements and of more far-reaching developments involving the creation of a substantial trading bloc or blocs in the region. Comparisons between the economic effects of establishing such bloc(s) in the region and the effects of achieving APEC's Bogor goals on the basis of "open regionalism" suggest that the latter approach continues to offer a worthwhile alternative. The study demonstrates that the benefits of global free trade dominate those available from establishment of any combination of major blocs or from APEC's "open regionalism".

Whether it's getting better grades, creating better relationships with your friends, parents, or teachers, getting a car, getting into the college that's right for you, getting a date for the prom, or finding your dream job, the Law of Attraction works!Like attracts like - when we align our goals with our best intentions and highest purpose, we can more easily get the things we want and have a better, brighter life. It's all about improving your quality of life and increasing your happiness. Recognize what you really want in your life and how to focus on it Understand when the Law of Attraction is working positively (producing the results you want) Use the negatives in life, such as stress, pressure and anxiety, to your advantage Learn positive techniques you can use for creating the life you want Learn how to think, act, and communicate on a higher levelIn this book you'll learn all about the principles of the Law of Attraction and how it can bring about amazing changes in your life.

Whether your heart is burdened or bursting with joy, nothing satisfies quite like talking things over with another woman. Regardless of the paths our lives take, all women are "sisters"-we speak a common language; we share a universal bond. Because the hopes and dreams that both burden and give flight to a woman's heart dwell within all of us, we create relationships that are intensely rich, precious and prized. Thus, we comfort and encourage each other; we help each other through life's ups and downs; we know each other's experiences as if they were our own; we are a blessing to each other. As this book of beautiful, inspirational life lessons reveals, sharing the experiences of our lives imbues us with a wisdom the soul reveres: Nothing happens without God's permission.