Want some major motivation to dream big and take on your next challenge? Inspiring True Teen Stories brings together some of the most moving reader stories ever printed in the pages of Seventeen magazine. These eleven girls reveal how they faced life's most difficult obstacles-and came out stronger. One girl shares how she overcame a terrifying injury, while another explains how she confronted head-on the racism in her town. One reader describes what...

What would you do if your house were robbed, while you were in it? What would you do if you were kidnapped? Or if you needed brain surgery? In Seventeen's Terrifying True Teen Stories, eleven teen girls share how they bravely handled life's most tragic and frightening challenges. The details are crazy, but their stories are amazing!

They tell me I'm cold and calculating. They tell me I'm not a team player. I say this without pride or pleasure. It is a simple fact. I am the best Warrior in the Immortal Societies. When a team of scientists unearth scriptures older than the Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave in Egypt, a mystery lost to the tides of time is uncovered. Heading the expedition is Dimitri Reznak, the Head of the Crovir Immortal Culture & History Section. But the monumental...

1570. Carpathian Mountains, Moldavia: Ten-year-old Lucas's life is a simple but happy one. All that changes when the Hunters finally track down his whereabouts. Forced to bear witness to horrific scenes that forever shatter his innocence, he discovers the shocking secret behind his less than ordinary existence. What follows is a fight for survival that will define the nature of a boy bound to an incredible destiny whose origins have been lost to the...

A young adult adventure story set in the Australian outback. The world we know has changed. Imagine a world where everything you grew up with is gone. No television, no internet, no shopping centers and no adults. When a catastrophic virus kills everyone above the age of seventeen, life on earth suddenly becomes a battle for survival. As the virus hits Australia, two sisters, Lexi and Hadley, find themselves alone and vulnerable. With gangs roaming...

The Order of the Three Spears. Founded at the turn of the ninth century by the Lotus-Born Second Buddha and inspired by the most powerful immortal warrior who ever lived, this secret buddhist society has kept the existence of immortals hidden from ordinary humans and maintained peace between the races for twelve hundred years. When news of an ancient enemy reaches them from the West, the Order sends its best and most unorthodox field agent to investigate....