Making the transition from grade school to middle school can be a very scary experience but girls don't have to navigate it alone! Here's a book by five savvy and extremely smart girls written when they were seventh-graders at Girls' Middle School, an all-girl school in California, for girls just like them. With straight-from-the-heart advice on everything from dealing with being popular (or not!) and staying true to yourself, to handling more responsibility at home and at school, this is a girl's ultimate guide to surviving and succeeding in middle school on her own terms.

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Product Description

Making the transition from grade school to middle school can be a very scary experience—but girls don't have to navigate it alone! Here's a book by five savvy and extremely smart girls written when they were in middle school for girls just like them. With straight-from-the-heart advice on everything from dealing with being popular (or not!) and staying true to yourself, to handling more responsibility at home and at school, this is a girl's ultimate guide to surviving and succeeding in middle school on her own terms. Including a forword written by the editor-in-chief of Girls' Life Magazine, this how-towill resonate with readers!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1248508 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 96 pages

From Booklist
Gr. 4-6. Five seventh-grade girls offer advice and commentary to other young women ready to begin middle school. They discuss social and academic expectations, friendships and bullies, boys and dating, personal expression through fashion and makeup, and body changes and image. The writing style is reassuring and casual ("keeping your family life on an even keel . . . snagging an awesome, diverse group of buds"), with frequent sidebars. The strongest sections are those concerning popularity, cliques, and body image (the condensed version: be yourself). There's also a dictionary of online chat lingo and directions for removing one's bra without removing one's shirt. Although this doesn't address sexual identity issues or bad family situations, the majority of rising middle-school readers will find much good advice here. Kay Weisman
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Review
'... delightful... Colorful anecdotes and intelligent, hip language keep readers' eyes on the prize—maintaining a healthy body image and body while navigating middle school.' -School Library Journal

About the Author
Sara Borden, Sarah Miller, Alex Stikeleather, Maria Valladares, and Miriam Yelton wrote this book for a school project when they were in seventh grade. They currently attend tenth grade in Northern California where they live.

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Customer Reviews

My Daughter Loves This Book
I got this for my youngest daughter the summer before she started middle school. She was very anxious about the change to a new school. My daughter read this book in a day, laughed out loud several times, and really loved it. She even pointed out passages and sections to me, so it was something that we could share. I truly believe it helped allay some of her fears and concerns. The book was apparently written by a group of girls who were in or recently completed middle school, which I think made it more "real" for my daughter. I highly recommend it for girls getting ready to attend or already in middle school. (Maybe not so much for boys.)

A Biased Review From a Proud Librarian
It is important to note that I have never reviewed books online for anyone, but I have made an exception for the work of these five former students of mine. Their hard work on this book, begun when they were in the seventh grade, has really paid off in this handsome and direct guide for anyone trying to negotiate the halls of their new middle school. Funny, insightful, and full of real-life information teens can put to immediate use, this is an essential book to have for the transition into the teenage years.

Fantastic Book!
A great book for anyone heading to middle school! It's not only full of terrific advice; it's also an inspiring story in itself (amazingly enough, the five authors wrote it while they were in middle school!). I sure wish I'd had a copy of this book back when I was eleven or twelve years old.

Ann Packer