We hope you'll be inspired, shocked, amused, and touched by this selection of letters from the DearTeenMe.com website. 'How awesome would it be if authors wrote letters to their teen selves?' A year and a half later, you can pick up DEAR TEEN ME from Zest Books, read more on the website, or just kick back and enjoy the selection we'll be posting here. Co-curators: E. Kristin Anderson and Priya Chand. The individual letters are property of the contributing authors. We can't guarantee your head won't explode from the mix of angst and excitement, but you *will* enjoy the ride.

So where am I? Right, crazy-ass hippies, boarding school, friends, dumb name, The Promise. Oh God, The Promise. I don't even want to talk about The Promise right now, to be frank. I'll just say that The Promise was broken three times during our last year at Hamilton, and with each break, our group, too, became a little more fractured. We all wanted to blame someone, so we blamed each other. And Max. Mostly Max. Max and his stupid 'promise' rule.

Abigail is five years old when she visits the estates of one of her mother's dearest friends. Against her mother's wishes she travels into the forest and discovers a stream, along with a bear. Seconds from her death, Kayden, the sixteen year old brother of her mother's friend, rushes in to save her. However, now she's deeply and hopelessly in love with him and she knows that for the rest of her life she will be left to do nothing but wish they could be together. Because there's no way Kayden would ever love her too, right?

After her mum dies Crystal has no other choice but to live with her disappointment of a father. Unbeknown to her, his HOT best-mate and drug addict Tyler is also staying over and as soon has he see's her he wants to get in her pants. He's twenty-eight, and shes seventeen. She has a boyfriend, and he sleeps around. He party's harder then you could imagine and shes completely mesmerized by him. Will the fact that crystal is Tylers best-mates daughter effect the way he behaves towards her? Or will he introduce her to drugs, sex and alcohol?