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Parents and Teachers's Picks!

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• Guides and Guideposts Bookshelf
• Girls and Teens Bookshelf
• Inspiration and Sources Bookshelf
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Guides and Guideposts Bookshelf

Click on one of the titles below to read the review and find out more about a book you might like.

• Things Will Be Different For My Daughter
• How to Father a Successful Daughter
• The Father's Almanac
• Keep Talking: A Mother-Daughter Guide to the Pre-Teen Years
• Teenage Girls: A Parent's Survival Manual
• The Complete Idiots Guide to Parenting a Teenager
• Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Girls and Teens Bookshelf

Click on one of the titles below to read the review and find out more about a book you might like.

• Finding Our Way
• My Feelings, Myself
• Girltalk: Stuff Your Sister Never Told You
• Totally Private and Personal: Guide to Journaling
• The Information Please Girls' Almanac
• It's A Girl Thing Staying Safe, Healthy and In Charge

Click on one of the titles below to read the review and find out more about a book you might like.

• The Timetables of Women's History
• Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarks
• Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women
• Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14
• Best of the Best for Children (terrific resource not on Amazon's shelf.)

Our Girl's World Crew has reviewed the following books for you! To order a book, please click on the title. That will take you to Amazon.com. We hope you enjoy our picks for this issue!

Things Will Be Different For My Daughter: A Practical Guide to Building Her Self-Esteem and Self-Reliance, Mindy Bingham, Sandy Stryker, Susan All Stetter Neufeldt

A warm, friendly and very practical guide to growing a confident, capable woman from infancy through the teen years. What's great about this book is that there are questions, quizzes and short essays that help parents think about what it means to be male and female today. What are their core beliefs, and how do they communicate these important feelings and ideas to their daughters?

Keep Talking: A Mother-Daughter Guide to the Pre-Teen Years, Lynda Madison, Lynda Madison Ph. D.

Written by a family therapist who is also mother of two preteen daughters. This book is a great jumping off point for mothers and daughters to talk about important issues like family, friends, morals, emotional and physical changes that are all a part of growing up. A surprisingly good tool for bringing mothers and daughters together to talk about issues that often can drive them apart.

Teenage Girls:A Parent's Survival Manual, Lauren K. Ayers

A simple, straightforward idea source for parents who may feel at their wits end when it comes to understanding their teen daughters.

The Complete Idiots Guide to Parenting a Teenager, Kate Kelly

Okay. The title is corny and condescending. But the contents of this book are really worthwhile. It's fun, funny, down to earth, and chock full of good advice on how to raise teens without losing your wits or your sense of humor. It respects both girls and parents. There's advice that works about how to deal with the day to day life of your teen: homework, mood swings, even tough subjects to talk about like drugs, smoking, dating and sex. A must have.

The Father's Almanac, S. Adams Sullivan

For anyone expecting a new baby, or if you have toddlers in the house, this is a great book. A bestseller for years, The Father's Almanac has been revised and updated for a whole new generation of dads. This readable, inspiring guide helps new fathers get through an alien (to some of them) world. Crying babies. Too-picky-to-eat toddlers. Terrified preschoolers on the first day. This book is a wonderful treasury of advice, ideas, and suggestions. Enjoy it!

Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap, Peggy Orenstein

Stephen King, move over. This is a very disturbing book about what's happening to our girls in school. If you have children in school, teach children, work with them or just care about them, read this book. Our girls are being shortchanged in our school systems by well meaning, caring adults who need our support to make the changes necessary to make girls matter. The issues in this book are far reaching and affect everyone. Buy it. Read it. Share it with friends.

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls , Mary Bray Pipher

Written by a therapist who works with young girls, this book sounded the "wake up call" that opened many parents eyes to the damage our "girl-poisoning culture" is causing to girls. Want to do something about girls who drop out of school, take drugs and engage in premature relationships? This is a book with strategies that attack the problem at its roots -- poor self esteem. A terrific book for parents.

Finding Our Way, Allison Abner and Linda Villarosa

The essential teen girls' survival guide: who we are, what we want, how we can get it. It's all here: acne, gang violence, eating disorders, fighting racism, sexism, staying healthy, getting along with mom and dad -- a must have that helps with the issues girls face every day.

My Feelings, Myself, Lynda Madaras, Area Madaras, Jackie Aher (Illustrator)

A great book about feelings that's also fun for girls to read. It's not preachy, it's practical. There's quizzes, stuff to do, activities and real life stories from girls that talk about relationships, parents, friends, peer pressure, self esteem. Answers most of those questions that teens need answers to, now.

Girltalk: All the stuff your sister never told you., Carol Weston. Wow. An incredible guide for girls 11 to 17. Body image, friendships, love, family relationships, school, drugs. A teen reviewer wrote: "this really makes sense to teenage girls. It talks about everything: sex, drugs, money, families, and more. At the end of every chapter, there's a letter section, where Carol answers girls' letters and gives them advice. Girltalk isn't a really nerdy book the way some teenage advice books are. It doesn't tell you to do stuff nobody who's actually a teenager would ever do."

The Information Please Girls' Almanac, Margo McLoone-Basta, Alice Siegel, Margo McLoone

This is a book girls really cherish and read again and again. Presented in almanac form, there's all kinds of cool facts and information about fashion, sports, boys, feelings, your body, careers for women, cool stuff women have invented, customs, folklore, great women every girl should know.

It's A Girl Thing: Staying Safe, Healthy and In Charge, Mavis Jukes, Debbie Tilley (Illustrator)

Short, simple articles for girls 10 to 14 about everything a girl needs to know about being a girl: bras, dating, information on sex that can spark great mother/daughter discussions, coping with your first period, emotional health, how to set goals, boundaries, who to go to for help and how. The author's style is entertaining and straightforward. Written with the idea that knowledge is power, a real self-esteem and confidence builder for girls.

The Timetables of Women's History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Women's History , Karen Greenspan

Every home library should have this book. An easy to read, simple to use, fascinating book about women's contributions to politics, the arts, religion, science, technology -- you name it, it's here. And if you play Trivial Pursuits or Brain Blasters, lots of the answers are here too!

Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarks

Looking for a different angle on your vacation? This is an unusual and very cool look at America from the woman's point of view. A historic landmark that celebrates the deeds of America's heroic women may be sitting in your backyard, and you'll never know it without this book.

Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women, Kathleen Odean

We've never seen anything like this sourcebook. It's truly a one-of-a-kind for girls from cradle to adolescence. Looking for great role models? Women in charge of their own lives and destinies? Women who are problem solvers? Look no further. From quests to queens, these books on women are incredible finds.

Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14, Erica Bauermeister, Holly Smith

Similar in theme to "Great Books for Girls" with an eye to the younger set, and lots more "girl heroines". This is the place to meet the best-loved females of literature, from Eloise and Miss Rumphius to Laura Ingalls Wilder and Harriet the Spy. Real life heroines, Jane Goodall, Harriet Tubman, Golda Meir, and Louisa May Alcott, etc. are well represented. There are wonders and delights, girls and women who hunt fossils, swim with sharks, outwit dragons, learn to read, win the Nobel Prize, make friends. You'll never look at the word "greatness" the same way again after reading this incredible book.