Synopses & Reviews
"The time is always right to do what is right."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You have to accept who you are -- and that is beautiful."
-- Alicia Keys
"English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England."
-- Homer J. Simpson
Making friends, finding true love, enduring rough days at school, or just being yourself -- we all meet new (and old!) challenges every day. Carol Weston, teen advice columnist, has good advice for whatever you're facing.
In For Teens Only, Carol collects the words and thoughts of the wisest and wittiest thinkers of all time from every corner of the globe, from Pablo Picasso to Jennifer Lopez; from Mark Twain to Indira Gandhi and Halle Berry. Then she adds her own insights, collected over the years from her conversations and correspondence with thousands of real teens.
About the Author
Although Carol Weston was born in the last century, she isn't that old.Carol is the advice columnist for
Girls' Life Magazine and the author of
Girltalk:All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You and
For Girls Only:Wise Words, Good Advice.Both books are out in Chinese.Carol does not speak Chinese but she does speak french and Spanish, and graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a degree in French and Spanish literature.She also has an M.A. from Middlebury College.
Carol has appeared on The View and has been a guest of Oprah, Montel, Ricki, Geraldo, and Sally.She's written for Seventeen, Teen, YM, Parents, Redbook, Family Circle, and Glamour, and has done author chats on Yahoo and ivillage.Her first novel is The Diary of Melanie Martin.Carol lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters and their rabbit, Honey Bunny.Carol enjoys being a girl even though she's a grown-up.