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Glamour Magic and Witchcraft

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Glamour Magic and Witchcraft

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“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.

― Paula Guran

Happy Halloween! Hosts Brigitte Jia and Joven Hundal start off the show with Trends without Ends reporter Jack Pawlakos shares tricks, treats, and tips for a great Halloween. This year around 179 million Americans plan to dress up and celebrate Halloween,. spending will tally more than $9.1 billion! Chelsea Pelchat, reporter for Past Present, takes us on an historical tour of the origins of Halloween. The Celtic festival of Samhain, another word for summer’s end, meant people would light bonfires and wear costumes to scare off ghosts. This was the day which Irish farmers believed that the dead could rise up from underground and walk amongst the living. Glamorous witch, Deborah Castellano encourages listeners to be crafty, cunning, and unafraid to want something fiercely through her book Glamour Magic: The Witchcraft Revolution for Getting What You Want , Glamour is your secret weapon—your guide to finding what you want and getting it, too, whether it is Halloween or just an ordinary Day.

Have a safe, fun Halloween! Don’t eat too much candy! Booooo!

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Deborah Castellano writes for many of Llewellyn’s annuals and writes a blog on PaganSquare about opinions on glamour, the Muse, and the occult. Glamour Magic: The Witchcraft Revolution for Getting What You Want (Llewellyn) is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Llewellyn.  Her shop, the Mermaid and the Crow, specializes in handmade goods. She resides in New Jersey with her husband, Jow, and two cats. She has a terrible reality television habit she can’t shake and likes St. Germain liqueur, record players, and typewriters. Visit her at www.charmedfinishingschool.com.com.

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Teens talk and the world listens every Tuesday NOON PT on the Voice America Kids Network. Produced by StarStyle® Productions, LLC and Cynthia Brian, these young adults know how to rock and express their unique views. Join the fun!

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Listen at Voice America Kids network: https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/103257/halloween-haunts

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Express Yourself! Teen Radio is produced by Cynthia Brian of Starstyle Productions, llc as an outreach program of Be the Star You Are! charity. To make a tax-deductible donation to keep this positive youth programming broadcasting weekly to international audiences, visit http://www.bethestaryouare.org/donate.htm. Dare to care!

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Living, Growing, Totally Spooky

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Living, Growing, Totally Spooky

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By Cynthia Brian

“To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” William Blake

The season of screams and scares is officially here! Halloween is right around the corner, and it’s time to embrace your inner ghoul. With only a few days left until a haunted eve, a walk in the park or around your personal garden will spark your spooktacular spirit as you encounter everyday species that ignite eerie imaginings, yet are friendly visitors. It’s time to put out our mystical welcome mat.
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Children have feared spiders since the days of learning the nursery rhyme “Little Miss Muffet”. We may not want them living in our homes, but in the garden spiders are considered beneficial bugs. There are generally two types of spiders-the weavers and the hunters. The big, beautiful, yet scary looking yellow and black argiope spider (Golden orb weaver) spins a web that catches garden predators twice her size while the hunters, the wolf spider and the crab spider, ambush their prey. Even their names evoke Halloween myths. These helpful arthropods (meaning eight legs) are considered more efficient eaters than our feathered friends eradicating aphids, spider mites, leafhoppers, armyworms, caterpillars, beetles, thrips, and other nuisances. Don’t squish the spiders nor destroy their webs because spiders are positive pest patrollers of our secret oasis.
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Allium sativum is renowned for repelling vampires. But the next time you witness darting dive-bombers of the dark, hide the garlic to usher in the bats. Contrary to common thought, these North American “vampires” do not attack people. Mosquitoes bite people and bats eat more than 600 mosquitoes per hour. Their droppings are rich in nitrogen and they guard gardens from invasive insects. If you have a pool, you’ll witness them skimming the water at twilight.

Many people are frightened of snakes, but finding a snake in the grass is a good omen. Most snakes are not poisonous and the most common snakes we find in our gardens are the garter or King snake. Rattlesnakes are venomous and like all pit vipers have thick triangular heads, easily distinguishable from their docile, non-poisonous relatives. Snakes eat mice, rats, and other rodents as well as snails and slugs.
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Do you have lizards in your landscape? Congratulations, you are gardening organically. A healthy garden boasts plenty of these small, fast moving reptiles. Without chewing, lizards swallow moths, grubs, flies, grasshoppers, beetles, and crickets whole. When you see a lizard with a missing tale, it’s not an ingredient in a witches’ brew, but probably digesting in the belly of a bird. Tales do grow back. Lizards are excellent neighbors. Encourage them to stay.

To attract any of these beneficial creepy crawlies or flying friends, make sure to offer hiding places, water, and eliminate all pesticides, herbicides, and non-organic fertilizers. Allow them admittance to your hunting grounds as they pursue, chase, and stalk plant destroyers.
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How else can we be scared in our own backyards this Halloween?

⎫ Trees can be frightening. Get up close to check out the bark of a eucalypts tree or recline under a pepper tree swaying in the wind. Let your imagination run wild. Do you see skeletons, witches, ghosts, or faces of the walking dead?
⎫ Investigate the babies of a spider plant, or be spooked by a hanging snake plant.
⎫ Admire the beautiful blooms and intoxicating fragrance of the sweetly named Angel Trumpet but don’t be tempted to taste it.  As a member of the Nightshade family, it is highly toxic, even deadly. Wear gloves!
⎫ Why is the fox by the fountain in the backyard? Or is the fox a shape shifter?
⎫ Are the coyotes howling at the moon or an evil eye wandering in the darkness?
⎫ Do you hear the hooting of the owls and the cawing of the crows? They too are hunting…and not for humans.

And, finally, a gardener’s Halloween quiz. (Answers at the bottom)
a. What is a vampires’ favorite flower?
b. What is a werewolf’s favorite legume?
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Carve your pumpkins, light the Jack O’Lanterns, weave your webs, and dress up the skeletons you’ve been hiding in the closet. Nature provides the imagination for your supernatural trick or treat decor.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all the witches, warlords, pirates, princesses, paupers, pumpkins, and pilgrims!

Cynthia Brian’s Mid Month Reminder

I’m sounding like a broken record, but remember to chill your bulbs for a minimum of six to ten weeks before planting. Keep them in the dark at 38-45 degrees Fahrenheit before putting in the ground as we live in a warm zone and many bulbs, including tulips native to colder Holland, will not thrive. Make sure that no fruits or vegetables are in the refrigerator, as they will emit harmful ethylene gas. In November and December when ready to plant, make sure the soil has been properly prepared before removing your bulbs from refrigeration. Plant promptly.
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Quiz answers
A: Bleeding Hearts
B. Human Beans

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Happy Gardening, Happy Growing!
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Cynthia Brian is a New York Times best selling author, speaker, coach, and host of the radio show, StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!® broadcasting live every Wednesday from 4-5pm PT on the Voice America Network.. She also is the creator and producer of Express Yourself!™ Teen Radio and Executive Director of Be the Star You Are!® 501c3 charity.

Halloween Spooktacular, Trick or Treat for Literacy

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Halloween Spooktacular, Trick or Treat for Literacy

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The season of screams and scares is officially here! Halloween is the time to embrace your inner ghoul. Health Matter’s Heather Brittany keeps you safe during her favorite spooky holiday with tips and tricks.
Legend has it that garlic repels vampires and wards off the evil eye. Popularized by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, garlic not only is effective against the blood-sucking princes of the night, but also fends off the undead, including witches, warlocks, and werewolves.  Goddess Gardener, Cynthia Brian tells us how to plant, store, and use this miracle vampire repellent.

Special guest, Be the Star You Are!® Teen Ambassador and Host of Express Yourself!™ Teen Radio, Henna Hundal joins the conversation to talk about Trick or Treat for Literacy, her Halloween favorites, and making a difference with her BTSYA volunteerism.

For some spooktacular holiday inspiration, Starstyle®-Be the Star You Are!™ will shoot you into the spirit of Halloween faster than you can say BOO!
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Halloween Spooktacular, Ghouls, Gourds, Garlic, Henna Hundal

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Welcome to Starstyle®-Be the Star You Are!® with your hosts Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany on the Voice America Empowerment Channel.  We strive to be useful, informative, interesting, entertaining, and unique as we seed, stimulate, and support space for positive, meaningful conversations. Instead of waiting for something better, we hope to help you create it now.  

The season of screams and scares is officially here! Halloween is the time to embrace your inner ghoul. Health Matter’s Heather Brittany keeps you safe during her favorite spooky holiday with tips and tricks with fun information on costumes, decor, candy, fire hazards, houses to visit, and more.

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Legend has it that garlic repels vampires and wards off the evil eye. Popularized by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, garlic not only is effective against the blood-sucking princes of the night, but also fends off the undead, including witches, warlocks, and werewolves.  Goddess Gardener, Cynthia Brian tells us how to plant, store, and use this miracle vampire repellent.

Special guest, Be the Star You Are!® Teen Ambassador and Host of Express Yourself!™ Teen Radio, Henna Hundal joins the conversation to talk about Trick or Treat for Literacy, her Halloween favorites, and making a difference with her BTSYA volunteerism.

For some spooktacular holiday inspiration, Starstyle®-Be the Star You Are!™ will shoot you into the spirit of Halloween faster than you can say BOO!  Listen at Voice America and Listen at StarStyle Radio with photos and descriptions. 

Catch up with all broadcasts on ITunes. Buy books by Cynthia Brian.

Congrats to everyone who volunteers and supports Be the Star You Are!®. BTSYA has been named a 2014 TOP NON PROFIT for the 6th straight year and is one of the first to be awarded this honor by Guidestar and Great Non Profits.

Express Yourself!™ Teen Radio is produced by Cynthia Brian of Starstyle® Productions, llc as an outreach program of Be the Star You Are!® charity. For information on being a guest email caiekelley@gmail.com. To make a tax-deductible donation to keep this positive youth programming broadcasting weekly to international audiences. Thanks for supporting teens!

Be the Star You Are!® charity. It’s the Season of Giving Make a donation today. Buy books and shirts.

Trick or Treat for Literacy:

Give to Trick or Treat for Literacy. Instead of collecting candy, collect donations to give a child a book treat.

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The award winning positive talk radio program, StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!® broadcasts on the Voice America Empowerment Channel LIVE every Wednesday from 4-5pm Pt/7-8pm ET. Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany are the Mother/Daughter dynamic duo who have been co-hosting this program live weekly since 1998 bringing upbeat, life enhancing conversation to the world. With Cynthia’s expertise in interviewing the trailblazers, authors, and experts and Heather’s healthy living segments, these Goddess Gals are your personal growth coaches helping you to jumpstart your life while igniting your flame of greatness.

Brought to the airwaves under the auspices of the literacy and positive media charity, Be the Star You Are!®, each program will pump your energy to help you live, love, laugh, learn, and lead.

Previous guests and fans of the program on World Talk Radio will always be able to access the archives. Tune in the Power Hour every Wednesday from 4-5pm PT/70-8pmET and join our empowerment party!

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If you are a fan of the authors, experts, celebrities, and guests that appear regularly on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!® radio, you can now be sure to never miss an episode. Embed this code into your WordPress site or any site and you’ll always have Cynthia Brian, Heather Brittany, and all of your favorite pioneers on the planet at your fingertips.  Upbeat, positive, life-changing talk radio broadcasting live each week since 1998. Lend us Your Ears. We are Starstyle®-Be the Star You Are!®

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Congratulations to Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany for 12 years of weekly LIVE broadcasting of StarStyle®-Be the Star you Are!® on Voice America/World Talk Radio. Tune in Wednesdays 4-5pm PT/7-8pm ET. Archives, photos, descriptions and more are available at all times. The program is brought to the airwaves as an outreach program of Be the Star You Are!® charity. Lend us your ears!

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Halloween Spooktacular

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The season of screams and scares is officially here! Halloween is right around the corner, and it’s time to embrace your inner ghoul. For a skelton’s spooktacular holiday inspiration, Express Yourself!™ gets you into the spirit of Halloween faster than you can say BOO! We celebrate Halloween traditions from around the world with hosts Henna Hundal and Katelyn Darrow as they pepper our trick or treat show with tips on how to enjoy haunted attractions, create gory decorations, carve peculiar pumpkins, cook monster mash, and don unique costumes. Rising star on Nickelodeon’s “Henry Danger”, hilarious and fun loving Sean Ryan Fox, talks about his love of superheroes, superpowers, and his similarities to his crazy character, Jasper. Debuting reporter of Hope Heals, Zahra Hasanain, delves into the history of Halloween while offering the best places and ways to trick or treat. As the chairperson of Be the Star You Are!®’s Trick or Treat for Literacy Campaign, Zahra as well as hosts Henna and Katelyn encourage donations to http://www.bethestaryouare.org/donate.htm to give books instead of candy. No matter what your age, as the skies darken and jack-o-lanterns glow, get your goosebumps on for a walking dead scary Halloween!

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Congrats to everyone who volunteers and supports Be the Star You Are!®. BTSYA has been named a 2014 TOP NON PROFIT for the 6th straight year and is one of the first to be awarded this honor by Guidestar and Great Non Profits.

Express Yourself!™ Teen Radio is produced by Cynthia Brian of Starstyle® Productions, llc as an outreach program of Be the Star You Are!® charity. For information on being a guest email caiekelley@gmail.com. To make a tax-deductible donation to keep this positive youth programming broadcasting weekly to international audiences. Thanks for supporting teens!

Be the Star You Are!® charity. It’s the Season of Giving Make a donation today. Buy books and shirts. 

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Give to Trick or Treat for Literacy. Instead of collecting candy, collect donations to give a child a book treat. 

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October News with Cynthia Brian

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“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change.”

Charles R. Swindoll

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Message from Founder, Cynthia Brian

Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so powerful as hope. Hope keeps dreams alive. Hope is everything. Recently I received a letter from an incarcerated individual who had read my book, Be the Star You Are!® 99 Gifts for Living, Loving, Laughing, and Learning to Make a Difference.  Because of the true stories of portrayed in the book, he said he was filled with hope for a better tomorrow when he is released.  “But sadly”.  he wrote, “many of the other young people in prison with me are hopeless and helpless as we have no library of encouraging books. I would like to start one. Would you please consider sending copies of Be the Star You Are!® 99 Gifts for Living, Loving, Laughing, and Learning to Make a Difference?”

After I read his heart-felt letter I thought it wise to consult our volunteers to see how Be the Star You Are!® could respond. Our mission is to empower women, families, and youth through improved literacy, increased positive media, and sustainable tools for living. Unanimously the volunteers agreed that we would create a new outreach program to address this lack of empowerment and life skill books in places of incarceration. The program has been aptly named “Possibilities for Prisoners Project”. Our goal is to raise a start-up fund of $10,000 to collect, organize, and ship appropriate resources to decrease despair, increase hope, and encourage positive transformation. Following St. Francis of Assisi guidelines, we will offer light in the darkness and joy from the sadness.

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We hope you will support this important campaign to give hope and strength to those who seek a life without crime. All donations are tax deductible. It’s harvest time and the crop that will yield everlasting fruit is HOPE.

Help us give the gift of hope.

“Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.” From the movie “The Shawshank Redemption”

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Our Trick or Treat for Literacy Campaign Starts October 1. Thanks for contributing to a harvest of hope,  Read the newsletter

P.S. The holidays are around the corner. For a complete list of Outreach Programs you may wish to support.

Ideas on how to HELP. To purchase copies of Be the Star You Are!® or Be the Star You Are!® for TEENS for yourself or for gifts, go to our STORE. Case prices available.

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Author & Book Spotlight: Roland Allnach Prism

Described as a ‘star on the rise’ by Foreword Clarion, Roland Allnach, after working twenty years on the night shift in a hospital, has witnessed life from a slightly different angle. Prism’ presents the best of Roland Allnach’s newest stories together with his most acclaimed published short fiction, fracturing the reader’s perceptions among a dazzling array of genres and styles to illuminate the mysterious aspects of the human experience.

Tune in to a LIVE interview with Roland coming up on Wednesday, October 8, between 4-5pm PT on Starstyle® Be the Star You Are!® Radio. Read a review of his newest book, Prism at Amazon Barnes and Noble

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On September 27, volunteers of Be the Star You Are!® including teen writers, radio reporters, concert directors, and videographers provided activities for the community to enhance creativity. People of all ages participated in the Once Upon a Time…story while children made bookmarks at the Pear and Wine Festival.

Lots of freebies were offered to the festival attendees and a great time was enjoyed by all. Thanks to our Pear and Wine Festival sponsors The Lamorinda Weekly andNapa Valley Wealth Management.

Read the Story on our Creative Writing Page.

Discounts for BTSYA Supporters

Everyone loves a discount so here are a few you will enjoy using. UBER: New riders ride FREE! Value $30.00. Use code: cynthias34on UBER app

TORORIDE: $50 off your first ride. Use code: AZADTR

 AMAZON: Discounted books

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Want to start a CLUB BTSYA at your school?

Lots of opportunity for outreach programs including Book Reviews, Letters for Literacy, Possibilities for Prisoners, Radio Involvement, and events.

Contact CLUB BTSYA President, Caiseen Kelley via info@BetheStarYouAre.org

Make a difference with CLUB BTSYA.

SHOP and GIVE 

If you love to shop online, you’ll love the ways you can be donating to Be the Star You Are!® without spending a penny more, and sometimes saving a lot. The next time you want to buy ANYTHING, click on one of our links and you’ll

be supporting BTSYA while getting the best value for yourself!

Ways to Help

1. AmazonSmile donates .5% of purchases when you click here.

2. Discounted books at Amazon

3. Buy or Sell on EBAY

4. Use GoodSearch to search the web & buy from your favorite stores,. Choose Be the Star You Are as your charity to support. You can log in with Facebook, too!

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5. Shop at over 1300 stores on IGIVE

6. BTSYA Logo Store

Logo Store is Open

Volunteer and designer, Ryan Anderson, has been busy launching the Be the StarYou Are!® online Logo Store. His creative cuff bracelets, license plate holders, aprons, backpacks, totes, flags, and more are ready to be shipped! All sales are tax deductible.

You can also buy Read, Lead, Succeed T-Shirts and find out about other specials and discounts. Visit http://btsya.rylees.net

COMING SOON

Check our Events Calendar for More Details on the events below:

1. Trick or Treat for Literacy Campaign starts October 1-31.Download a flyer and help us raise awareness.

2. 11th Annual National Essay Contest Coming October 15th. For Sponsorship, contactinfo@BetheStarYouAre.org

Be a Sponsor of our Events!

3Halloween Pop Up Concert organized by Concert Director, Andrew Wang. October 31, Rheem Shopping Center.

4. Wrap Party organized by Event Coordinator, Jennifer Lee at Barnes and Noble. TBA

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Our volunteers are talented. They live our creed of “To be a leader, you must be a reader! Read, Lead, Succeed!” Check out their reviews and published articles.

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Tune in every Tuesday at NOON PT on the Voice America Kids Network to listen to our talented teens interview awesome guests from around the world.

Links, stories, photos and archives. Twenty seven volunteers have now been trained as hosts and reporters.

Live every Wednesday LIVE from 4-5pm on the Empowerment Channel of Voice America, hosts Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany bring you uplifting talk with T42, Health Matters, and interviews with authors and experts. Links, stories, photos, and archives.

With a donation to Be the Star You Are!®, you may become a guest on our radio programs. Find out how by emailing Cynthia@BetheStarYouAre.org Get inspired, motivated, amused, and informed. Check us out!

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Check out our Be the Star You Are!® profile at moja.me/cynthiabrian. Be the Star You Are!®, a 501 c3 charity wants to collaborate with sponsors, benefactors, and donors to make a positive difference in the world.

YOU are our Harvest of Hope

Thanks for making Be the Star You Are!® a TOP RATED NON PROFIT. We strive hard to enrich the lives of others while helping individuals be the stars they were born to be. Make a tax donation

Let’s SOAR To the STARS Together!

DONATE TO GIVE BOOKS INSTEAD OF CANDY TO KIDS IN NEED Trick or Treat for Literacy Campaign

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“To be a leader, you must be a reader.” Cynthia Brian, Founder

The cost of illiteracy to American taxpayers and businesses is $25 billion dollars per year.  Illiteracy is a growing epidemic causing irreparable damage to our society. Instead of giving candy to kids, let’s give them books. Your donation will give kids a chance. For as little as $4.00, Be the Star You Are!® can give the gift of a book.

Be the Star You Are! is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation whose mission is to empower women, families, and youth through improved literacy, tools for living, and positive media.

Be the Star You Are! collects, distributes, and promotes books and other positive media to women, families, and youth at risk as a way to increase literacy, decrease violence, raise life skills, self worth, and self esteem. This media ranges from education and advisement to inspiration and guidance and covers every aspect of life, from abuse through money management.

TREAT the KIDS this Halloween!

Here are simple ways you can help us help others.

*Donate $15 for our 15th year anniversary

*Buy a book package of autographed copies of collectibles, Be the Star You Are!® and Be the Star You Are!® for TEENS

A donation of $45 for two books includes tax/shipping

*Buy our T-shirt or Tank top “Read, lead, succeed.” 

A donation of $20 per shirt includes tax/shipping

*Give $600 worth of new books to cause of choice

A donation of only $99 includes tax/shipping

*Make a donation of any amount.

Give a check to our Teen Trick or Treat Ambassadors or send checks to Be the Star You Are!® charity

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All donations are 100% tax deductible & you will receive a receipt. 

Info & PAYPAL donations, visit www.bethestaryouare.org .

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