In the Louder Than Words Series Teens share their fascinating personal stories about their struggles and eventual triumph in their young lives.

Chelsey
Having already lost her mother to cancer as a young girl, Chelsey Shannon's life was turned upside when her father was tragically murdered when she was only thirteen years old.

Emily
Prone to illness throughout her life because of a weak immune system, Emily Smucker was used to having to sit things out. But when she got sick the summer before her senior year in high school, she was hit with a year of tests, wrong diagnoses, fading hopes, and a senior year sitting on the sidelines.

Marni
Marni is the powerful true-life story of one girl's painful relationship with her father following her parent's divorce, her turbulent adolescence resulting in depression and homeschooling, and her ultimate discovery that she suffers from a relatively rare and misunderstood stress disorder called trichotillomania, which causes people to pull out their body hair.

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Book Drawing ends July 31, 2009