[photopress:pnzcover_small.jpg,full,alignleft] Think Chicken Soup-meets-John Bytheway and you get Please, no zits! and other short stories for LDS youth.

Her short stories have been featured in The New Era, and now author Anne Bradshaw has taken it a step further and compiled a book of short stories: Please, no zits! and other short stories for LDS youth. When I first saw the book, I thought, “Not another book of unrealistic, always-have-a-happy ending stories for teenagers!” but I was pleasantly surprised. Not only are the stories not cheesy, they’re good! Don’t let the title of the book or the cover art fool you (both are a turn-off) – Bradshaw knows her stuff when it comes to teenagers. Her stories aren’t all about major life crises like other stories out there. Like the title implies, one of the stories is about teenage acne. What I liked best about the stories is that they’re not all set in the United States, and they’re good, timeless stories – problems that have been happening to teenagers for years are touched on in Bradshaw’s short stories.
Please, no zits! and other short stories for LDS youth is published by GoldenWings and can be found on Latter-dayVillage.com and Amazon.com for $12.95. It is also set to be carried by Deseret Book on November 11, 2007.