Real Answers to Tough Questions Tweens and Teens Face Growing Up

Our friend, Sissy Goff, co-wrote this new book. We wish her much success and wanted to help her spread the word about this important topic.


Contact: Karen Campbell
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karen.campbell@zondervan.com
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Real Answers to Tough Questions Tweens and Teens Face Growing Up
Authors Melissa Trevathan and Sissy Goff encourage girls as they grow into the woman
God created them to be.
Grand Rapids, Mich., August 18, 2008 – Counselors and Authors Melissa Trevathan and Sissy Goff help
girls navigate their teenage years and grow in Christ in their newest books. Mirrors and Maps: a Girls
Guide to Becoming a Teen and Growing Up Without Getting Lost: Discovering your Identity in Christ
(August 2008) are a compilation of everything Trevathan and Goff wish they knew growing up.
Mirrors and Maps is geared toward middle school girls, and Growing Up Without
Getting Lost is aimed at high schoolers. Both books honestly answer the questions
girls ask while their lives are changing.
• Who am I?
• What do I want?
• What should I do?
• Who do I want to be?
Trevathan and Goff are experts on helping girls struggling with the changes of
growing up. Trevathan founded the Daystar Counseling Ministries in Nashville, and
Goff joined the staff shortly after. They have devoted their careers to helping young
women in crisis, and Growing Up Without Getting Lost and Mirrors and Maps are a
combination of their experiences and insights on girls growing into teens and maturing
into woman.
“What a valuable resource for high school girls! We have known Melissa over the
years as a youth leader, mentor and friend and Sissy as a gifted counselor and
mentor to many teens in our community. Now they are authors who have produced a
work that will help girls all over the country discover who God is calling them to be.â€
-Michael W. and Debbie Smith, Author, Songwriter and Recording Artist, Parents of 5
(About Growing Up)
Trevathan and Goff co-wrote Raising Girls (Zondervan 2007) to help parents understand their daughters
and how to effectively love and parent them.
About Melissa Trevathan
Melissa Trevathan has been a youth director, a teacher, a retreat leader and is now the founder and
executive director of Daystar Counseling Ministries in Nashville. She's worked with kids, teenagers and
adults for over 40 years. She's been a guest on TV and radio programs in the US and Canada and cowrote
two other books with Sissy Goff. When she isn't counseling, writing or teaching seminars, she hangs out
with her old English sheepdog, Molasses.
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Karen Campbell
(616) 698-3246 [P]
karen.campbell@zondervan.com
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About Sissy Goff
Sissy Goff has been the director of child and adolescent counseling at Daystar since 1993. She's been a
guest on TV and radio programs across the US and Canada and speaks at churches, schools, youth
conventions and parenting seminars. She's written for CCM magazine and cowrote Raising Girls with
Melissa Trevathan. Sissy lives in Nashville with her little Maltese, Noel.
Author Websites
http://www.melissatrevathandsissygoff.com
http://www.daystarcounselingministries.org
About Mirrors & Maps
Mirrors & Maps: A Girl’s Guide to Becoming a Teen
By Melissa Trevathan & Sissy Goff
Youth Specialties/Zondervan
9780310279181
176 Pages
$16.99
Softcover
PUB DATE: August 2008
About Growing Up Without Getting Lost
Growing Up Without Getting Lost: Discovering Your Identity in Christ
By Melissa Trevathan & Sissy Goff
Youth Specialties/Zondervan
9780310279174
176 Pages
$16.99
Softcover
PUB DATE: August 2008
About Zondervan
Zondervan is the world's leading Christian publisher of books whose authors are noted for their excellence in the craft
of writing as well as their worthy contribution to the ongoing global evangelical conversation. The works published by
Zondervan not only confirm readers' faith and understanding, they also challenge and stretch readers' thinking. For
more than 75 years, Zondervan has delivered transformational Christian experiences through general, ministry, and
academic resources by influential leaders and emerging voices, and been honored with more Christian Book Awards
than any other publisher. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich., Zondervan publishes bestselling books, audio, video,
curriculum, software, and digital products in such categories as biblical languages and studies, biography, business,
contemporary issues, counseling, cultural, devotional, evangelism, family, fiction, history, inspiration, leadership,
ministry, pastoral, personal development, prayer, philosophy, reference, relationships, textbooks, theology, youth and
more. Zondervan resources are sold worldwide through retail stores, online, and by Zondervan ChurchSource, and are
translated into nearly 200 languages in more than 60 countries. Visit Zondervan Books on the Internet at
www.zondervan.com/books.
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Karen Campbell
(616) 698-3246 [P]
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About Youth Specialties
For nearly 40 years, Youth Specialties has worked alongside Christian youth workers of nearly every denomination
and youth-serving organization. Each year, Youth Specialties serves more than 100,000 youth workers worldwide
through training seminars and conventions, resources and the Internet. Youth Specialties produces the YS National
Youth Workers Convention for more than 15,000 youth workers each fall; and in the spring hosts the a one-day
training event for 20,000 youth workers. It also hosts DCLA, a triennial event for students and Planet Wisdom student
events which happen in more than a dozen cities during the school year. For more information, visit
www.youthspecialties.com.
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