There Is Nothing Wrong With You for Teens
Grade 9 & Up--Huber explores the Zen perspectives of self-awareness, self-examination, and self-acceptance for this audience with mixed results. She suggests that teens have heard negative comments from their earliest days, which teach a self-hatred that is difficult to refute and leads to attempts to change that fail because they go against an individual's true nature. Instead, she urges readers to accept themselves with compassion. There are kernels of wisdom for those who are willing to delve beneath the psychobabble that permeates this book. For example, Huber says, "We can ask, `What is outside the realm of compassion? What is not cared for?' And we can bring that into the healing light of compassion by simply acknowledging it, accepting it, allowing it." Some teens may respond to this sort of language by using it as an opportunity for self-examination, but others may get swallowed up in the verbiage and be unable to respond in the manner intended by the author. For inclusive self-help collections.-Susan Riley, Mount Kisco Public LibraryCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.