Now that she is 16 years old, she is concerned because she realizes that her soul mate might be sitting next to her in a class or might even ask her for a date, and she is not quite ready to make the same commitment her parents made years ago. From the story “ My Best Enemy” I learnt that we have to be open mined about our friends and whom we choose to be friends with.

I guess, in the back of my mind, I always thought that Ben was the only boy I would ever have these feelings for, that he was the only boy who would ever understand me. They are the co-authors of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul and Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul. They looked kind of like deer in headlights, standing outside the door, hands jammed in pockets, mouths half-open.This storys will make anyone have any kind of feeling and make them care and be happy for all the opertunitys they have and love life more. Another thing that really got to me was that the title suggests that these stories are meant to be soothing- but they just made me feel depressed; it's normally only the last two lines that are happy. Canfield received a BA in Chinese History from Harvard University and a Masters from University of Massachusetts. Serving Up A New Chicken Soup Archived 2012-09-18 at the Wayback Machine, Publishers Weekly, 2 February 2002. It will act as a best friend, there for you when you need it, always ready to tell you a story that will indeed make you feel better.

A 19-episode anthology series made up of stories from the series was produced and aired in the 1999–2000 television season by PAX TV, the current-day Ion Television. She told her, as I started my first day of high school wearing her clothes, that one day she would laugh and remind me of how she was always the cooler of the two of us. They're from real teens, and they're about the mad crazy, hard and joyful things that really happened to them and their friends. These books of short stories, along with the Bible, were my instruction manuals on how to survive being a teenager. For the rest of the day—okay, the rest of the week— every time I thought about her, I felt the same gut-socking, dizzy feeling I get before a big game.It was a good story and throughout the whole book I was so attached that i wouldn't go to sleep cause i wanted to keep reading this book is so good that i honestly will read it more than once. In 2013, the company announced plans to produce a television series and a film with Alcon Entertainment.