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Authors: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Kimberly Kirberger

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recording artist, video producer and award-winning athlete. He is the well-known author of seven books, including
Getting HighHow to Really Do It, One Minute Messages, The Art of Being Alive and Puppies for Sale and Other Inspirational Tales
. He can be reached at P.O. Box 8689, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 or by calling 801-485-5755.
Melissa Collette is most happy when she is spending time with her friends, listening to music, writing poetry and acting. She hopes to one day become an actress and work her way up to directing and producing. She lives by the saying, "Everything happens for a reason."
Cheryl L. Costello-Forshey is a poet who offers her original poetry to the public through her business, Photographic Verse. She is currently finishing up her first book of poetry. Cheryl can be reached at 36240 S. 16th Rd., Barnesville, OH 43713-9504 or call 740-757-9217. Please send a SASE for information on Photographic Verse.
Elisa Donovan first garnered the attention of filmgoers when she co-starred as the tippity, completely misguided slave-to-fashion, Amber, opposite Alicia Silverstone in the feature film Clueless. She also stars in the television series "Clueless" that airs on UPN. Next, Elisa will emerge in the Paramount feature
A Night at the Roxbury
, slated for release in October. Elisa was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and raised on Northport, Long Island. Elisa began acting at the age of seven and became engrossed with New York theater. Some of her theater credits include
The Baby, Mad Love, Mad Forest, Dark Hours, Chamber Music
and
Treading the Boards
. Other credits in television and film include
Blossom, Encino Woman, Beverly Hills, 90210
and
Powder Burns
. Elisa currently resides in Los Angeles.
Jason Dorsey is one of America's leading young speakers. Each year he reaches over 100,000 people of all ages, backgrounds and aspirations. His first book,
Graduate to Your Perfect Job
, and integrated curriculum are used across America. You may reach him by phone at 512-442-5170 or at
www.jasondorsey.com
.
Kristina Dulcey goes to a Catholic high school and enjoys playing softball. She dreams of becoming a plastic surgeon so that she can help people whose external appearances do not conform with what society deems as acceptable. She would like to specialize in reconstructive surgery rather than cosmetic as she feels cosmetic is "superficial." "After all," she says, "it's what is on the inside that counts."
Alison Mary Forbes is a sixteen-year-old high-school junior. She plans to pursue a long-awaited theater degree in college. Much thanks to the wonderful Barry Weber for submitting her poem when she was too chicken to do it herself! Alison can be reached at P.O. Box 26353, Wauwatosa, WI 53226.
Carol Gallivan lives in East Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband, Kevin, and their two teenage daughters, Kelly and Tracy. The greatest joys in her life

 

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are her relationships with God; her family; her niece and nephew, Renee and Eric; her dear friends; and the teenagers in her neighborhood.
Jessica Gardner is an eighteen-year-old from Warwick, Rhode Island, who is currently a musical theatre performance major at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. She would like to thank her family, especially her papa for the motivation, Mrs. Jean Robinson and Ms. Betty Challgren for the early encouragement, her friends and sisters for the support, and her two very best friends, Holly Langton and Shawn Carvalho, for giving her a shoulder to cry on, strength to make it through and the courage "to go out and do it." Nana, we miss you. You can reach Jessica at 401-461-3971 or e-mail her at
[email protected]
.
Kelly Garnett is currently a sophomore, majoring in Elementary Education at Oakland University in Michigan. She would like to thank her family and friends that have always been an inspirationand true "chicken soup" for her soul.
Lia Gay is eighteen and is leaving in the fall to start college at the University of Kansas, where she will major in journalism. Lia is a talented writer, whose stories in the first volume of
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
were favorites with readers. Lia is certain to succeed at any writing project she undertakes and she is certain to succeed equally well at living life to the fullest. She would like any correspondence to be sent to her care of Kimberly Kirberger, by regular mail to: P.O. Box 936, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 or by e-mail to:
[email protected]
.
April Joy Gazmen is an eighteen-year-old Filipina-American attending University of Houston-Downtown. Although she participates as a volunteer and in school activities, writing and reading are her passion. She is inspired by the following people who are always in her heart: Mama, Cza, Hawke, Chino, friends and teachers. To be published in
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II
is a dream come true. She can be reached at
[email protected]
.
Katie Gill had Hodgkin's disease when she was sixteen. She is now twenty-four and pursuing a graduate degree in education. Presently she is working on a book for teens with cancer and trying to establish support networks for adult survivors of teenage cancer. Katie can be reached at 4520 Ashbury Park Dr., North Olmsted, OH 44070.
Randy Glasbergen is the creator of the cartoon
The Better Half
, which is syndicated to 150 newspapers by King Features Syndicate. More than twenty thousand of Randy's cartoons have been published in magazines, books and greeting cards around the world. Look for Randy's daily cartoons online
@
www.norwich.net/~randyg/toon.html
.
Luken Grace is currently serving a two-year mission in Venezuela until August of 1999. He is a 1996 graduate of Sinagua High School in Flagstaff, Arizona. As the third child of six children, he has always enjoyed writing

 

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stories and drawing. After he graduates from college, he plans on becoming an English teacher.
Cindy Hamond is a freelance writer. This is her second story for
Chicken Soup
. She enjoys her school visits, especially when the children react to that "A-ha" moment in a story. She and her husband, Bruce, have five children and one grandchild. Cindy volunteers at St. Henry's as a teacher and lector and visits the homebound. She can be reached at 1021 West River St., Monticello, MN 55362 or call 612-295-5049 or fax 612-295-3117.
Jennifer Love Hewitt is best known for her starring role as Sarah Reeves on FOX's Golden Globe-winning drama series,
Party of Five
. Love has starred in such big-screen hits as
I Know What You Did Last Summer
and
Can't Hardly Wait
. Her upcoming projects include
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, The Suburbans
(with Ben Stiller), and an ABC movie-of-the-week in which she will play her idol, Audrey Hepburn.
Margaret (Meg) Hill writes articles, short stories and young-adult books. Recent titles are
Coping with Family Expectations
(Rosen, 1990) and
So What Do I Do About Me?
(Teacher Ideas Press, Libraries Unlimited, Englewood, Colorado, 1993). Kirk is the pen name she uses when writing from the viewpoint of a teenage boy.
Ashley Hiser is a seventeen-year old senior in high school in Morristown, New Jersey. She is involved in many activities through her school such as president of the French Club, member of the French Honor Socdiety, secretary of the Junior Statesmen of America, coeditor in chief of her school newspaper and manager of her cross-country team. Ashley has achieved perfect attendance throughout her three years of high school and has also been on the honor roll. She volunteers through her church's youth ministry and she makes a trip to Appalachia every summer. Ashley also works part-time at GapKids twelve to fifteen hours per week.
Wil Horneff has made a name for himself on stage, screen and television. After beginning his career on Broadway, Wil starred in the feature films
Born to Be Wild, The Sandlot
and the upcoming
Harvest
. On television, he gave an award-winning performance as Jody Baxter in the CBS remake of
The Yearling
and costarred in Stephen King's
The Shining
. Wil is currently a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania.
Katie E. Houston is a sophomore in Santa Barbara, California. She loves acting, singing, dancing and has been taking piano lessons for eight years. She enjoys writing, especially realistic fiction and poetry. Katie runs track (hurdles) and she would someday like to perform on Broadway or be an English/drama teacher.
Robin Hyatt was eighteen years old when she went to Camp Virginia Jaycee for the first time. She learned a lot from that experience and was also given a

 

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wonderful chance to broaden her horizons. It was the first time that she had ever worked with people of any mental handicap. She volunteered three more times at Camp Jaycee until she graduated from Lynchburg College in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Each time she went she looked at the world a little differently. She is currently working as the special events coordinator at the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce.
Christine Ichim's mother is still alive. In addition to the fund-raising project, Christine is in the process of writing a book. She also delivers motivational speeches to people of all ages.
Amanda Johnson is sixteen years old and a junior in high school in Placerville, California. This is her first published work but she has been writing poems and children's stories for years. Aside from writing, she also takes Jazz and Ballet and performs in school and community theatre productions. Amanda loves children.
Andrew Keegan is one of Hollywood's most popular young actors. Last television season, he had roles on both
Party of Five
and
7th Heaven
. Andrew will star in the upcoming Touchstone Pictures film
Ten Things I Hate About You
, which is based on William Shakespeare's
The Taming of the Shrew
. In his free time, he donates countless hours to charities that help critically and terminally ill children.
Heather Klassen writes fiction for children and teenagers from her home near Seattle. She has written a number of book manuscripts, ranging from picture books to young adult novels, and is very interested in finding publishers for those works. She can be reached at 26 150th Pl. SE, Lynnwood, WA 98037 or by calling 425-742-7407.
Theresa Jensen Lacey is a freelance writer who has authored four hundred newspaper/magazine articles and two Native American history books:
The Blackfeet
(1995) and
The Pawnee
(1996, Chelsea House). Lacey is the author of two YA novels (available), is working on a children's book and one on Native American women. The author is of Comanche and Cherokee descent. She can be reached at 112 Carney Rd., Clarksville, TN 37043, or by calling 931-358-5511, or by e-mail:
[email protected]
.
Medard Laz is a popular speaker and author of the international bestseller,
Love Adds a Little Chocolate: 100 Stories to Brighten Your Day and Sweeten Your Life
, as well as nine other books. Medard was instrumental in the development of Marriage Encounter and he cofounded (with Suzy Yehl Marta) Rainbows for All God's Children, a support group for children and teens who have experienced a divorce or death in their families. This group has ministered to over 600,000 children in sixteen countries. He also founded Joyful Again! (with Charlotte Hrubes), a support weekend for widowers and widows. Med is a highly sought-after speaker, giving presentations and workshops on a variety of marriage and family issues, as well as topics related to emotional and spiritual growth. Med lives in Chicago and is a priest of the Archdiocese of

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