Al Desetta, M.A., was an editor at Youth Communication, a New York–based nonprofit organization that teaches writing, journalism, and leadership skills to inner-city teens, from 1985 until 2002. He is currently a freelance editor.
In thirty first-person accounts, teens tell how they overcame major life obstacles and readers learn about seven resiliencies—such as insight, initiative, creativity, humor—that everyone needs to survive and thrive in even the toughest times.
