A teenager once wrote to the authors: "I was going to run away from home. I packed my bag. Then I opened your book to a random page. It was a story about a boy who ran away and realized his parents stayed awake looking for him. I unpacked my bag. Thank you for the soup."

Instagram and Snapchat show the highlight reel—the prom dress, the vacation, the A+ grade. The stories in this book show the bloopers. They talk about the first kiss that went wrong, the friend who ghosted you before "ghosting" was a word, and the parent who didn’t understand.

Uno de los pilares del éxito de este libro es su autenticidad. Al incluir testimonios reales, los lectores descubren que sus miedos y ansiedades no son únicos. Esta sensación de comunidad es vital para combatir la soledad que a menudo acompaña a la pubertad. Las historias demuestran que, aunque los desafíos varíen de una cultura a otra, el núcleo de la experiencia adolescente es compartido. El libro enseña que es posible superar el acoso escolar, recuperarse de una ruptura amorosa o encontrar el propósito personal incluso cuando el panorama parece incierto.

For the uninitiated, Caldo de Pollo para el Alma del Adolescente is the Spanish-language adaptation of the international blockbuster Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Kimberly Kirberger.