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Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Michael Thompson Publisher Comments Friends broaden our childrens horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen Publisher Comments In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy by Rachel Simmons Publisher Comments "I know I can't erase the searing loneliness of being an odd girl out. Yet I hope this book will give girls a sense of community, an opportunity to share strategies and solace, and most of all, the knowledge that even the worst kind of heartbreak... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence by Rosalind Wiseman Publisher Comments When Rosalind Wiseman first published Queen Bees & Wannabes, she fundamentally changed the way adults look at girls friendships and conflicts–from how they choose their best friends, how they express their anger, their boundaries with boys, and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher Review "Serious and thoughtful material presented with the fluidity of good fiction — sure to appeal to parents, teachers, and anyone interested in modern American culture." Kirkus Reviews... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier From Powells.com Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body, exploring the essence of what it means to be a woman. Though Angier grounds her book in a solid foundation of scientific fact, she... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Girlwise: How to Be Confident, Capable, Cool, and in Control by Julia Devillers Publisher Comments Spread a positive message with Operation Beautiful! You're beautiful just the way you are. Smile! Let your inner beauty shine. Imagine walking into a dressing room and finding notes like these stuck to the mirror. How would it make you feel? Operation... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul (Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul) by Jack Canfield Publisher Comments This first batch of Chicken Soup for Teens consists of 101 stories every teenager can relate to and learn from -- without feeling criticized or judged. This edition contains important lessons on the nature of friendship and love, the importance of belief... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Promiscuities: A Secret History of Female Desire by Naomi Wolf Publisher Comments Naomi Wolf, the author of "The Beauty Myth" and "Fire With Fire" explores and celebrates female sexuality, and shows how culture tries to shape and confine women's desire. Drawing on scholarly texts, diaries, real life and fantasy, she demonstrates that... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pretty Good for a Girl: A Memoir by Leslie Heywood Publisher Comments You are a girl. You are a girl and you want to show the world what you're made of, blood and steel and backbone, guts. So you start running. Running so all those eyes who see just a girl will know what you can do. Your legs take the hills, eat up the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons Publisher Comments Dirty looks and taunting notes are just a few examples of girl bullying that girls and women have long suffered through silently and painfully. With this book Rachel Simmons elevated the nation's consciousness and has shown millions of girls, parents... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller From Powells.com "Live from New York is described as 'an uncensored history of Saturday Night Live' and that is exactly what you get: no mincing of words, no glancing blows....See the hatred that Jim Belushi still bears for Bob Woodward for writing about his brother... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers by Linda Perlstein Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-260).... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls by Myra Sadker Publisher Comments Failing at Fairness, the result of two decades of research, shows how gender bias makes it impossible for girls to receive an education equal to that given to boys. Girls' learning problems are not identified as often as boys' are Boys receive more of... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wasted a Memoir of Anorexia & Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher Publisher Comments Plot Summary It was that simple . . . So begins Marya Hornbacher's heart-wrenching account of her through-the-looking-glass love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death. " I look back on my life, " she writes, " the way one watches a badly... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir by Zoe Trope Staff Pick "This high school memoir by Zoe Trope takes on all the cliched aspects of high school, but its form dissolves the catalogued pop culture references and the near universal alienation felt by high school misanthropes and pulls off a precise critique. Zoe... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Girls Seen and Heard: 52 Life Lessons for Our Daughters by Ms Foundation For Wo Synopsis Transforming the lessons of the extraordinarily popular Take Our Daughters to Work "RM" Day into the successful habits of a lifetime, this first-ever book by the Ms. Foundation for Women ensures that girls' march toward self-esteem is a one-way trip.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem and Save Girls' Lives by Jean Zimmerman Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the first book to document how participating in sports changes young girls' lives during the difficult years of adolescence. From high-profile women's professional leagues to high-school-level champions, girl athletes are acheiving... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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