Mean Girls: Facing Your Beauty Turned Beast [Paperback]

Hayley DiMarco (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2004

Sugar and spice and all that's nice? Not quite. It's tough to be a girl. Girls are mean to each other. Most girls will admit that they have been a victim of a mean girl. In fact, many will say that all girls are basically mean. Whether they're arguing about a boy, teasing a girl because of how she looks, or making up rumors to torment others, girls can be just plain ruthless. This one-of-a-kind book can help end the cycle of meanness. Mean Girls is a call to spiritual strength. A call to stand firm. It calls girls to face the beasts in their lives head on. In short, it's the answer girls need for the problem they never thought could go away.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

It's tough to be a girl Sugar and spice and all that's nice? Not quite. You have probably been a victim of a mean girl once or twice, the kind that loves to spread rumors, fight over the smallest things, tease, and torment. Let's face it. Sometimes girls can be just plain mean. But here's a way to end the cycle of mean once and for all. Mean Girls explains why girls are cruel and shows you how to deal with them, how to stop the cycle of Mean, and even how to remove Mean all together. Hayley will show you " why some girls treat you the way they do " what God thinks about your Mean Girl " why hanging out with a Mean Girl is bad for you, and " how to move on and find new, more healthy relationships Mean Girls might be around forever, but that doesn't mean they have to torment you. You can avoid fear, hurt, and embarrassment. Hayley DiMarco shows how! Hayley DiMarco has a passion for producing relevant material for teens. She is founder of the Hungry Planet think tank and the coauthor of the phenomenally successful Dateable, The Dateable Rules, and The Dirt on Breaking Up. Hayley and her husband, Michael, live in Nashville, Tennessee.

About the Author

Hayley DiMarco writes cutting edge books like Mean Girls, the best-selling Dateable, The Dateable Rules, and The Dirt on Breaking Up among others. Her goal in writing is to give practical answers for life's problems and encourage girls and women into stronger spiritual lives. Hayley has traveled the world with a French theater troupe, worked for a little shoe company called Nike, and created a multi-million dollar teen book business from scratch for Thomas Nelson Publishers. Hayley has seen a lot of life and decided to make a difference in her world. Hayley founded Hungry Planet, a think tank that feeds the world's appetite for truth through authors, speakers, and consultants. Hungry Planet helps organizations understand and reach the post-modern generations by tackling life's everyday issues with a distinctly modern spiritual voice.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Revell (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800759133
• ISBN-13: 978-0800759131
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #262,323 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #38 in Books > Teens > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity
  • #45 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Personal Health > Teen Health > Self-Esteem
  • #99 in Books > Teens > Education & Reference > Social Science

More About the Author

Hayley DiMarco is the best-selling author of more than thirty books, including Dateable, Marriable, Mean Girls, The Woman of Mystery, and Cupidity. She spent the early part of her career working for a little shoe company called Nike in Portland, Oregon and Thomas Nelson Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee.

In 2002 Hayley left Nelson and founded Hungry Planet, a company intensely focused on feeding the world's appetite for truth by producing books and new media, taking on issues of faith and life with a distinctly modern voice. Shortly after founding Hungry Planet, Hayley successfully completed a nationwide executive search for someone to run the company so she could focus on writing. She describes her husband, Michael, as her most successful business acquisition!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super sized advice, September 28, 2004

By 

"Salty" Sandy (Oceanside, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mean Girls: Facing Your Beauty Turned Beast (Paperback)

This book looks gorgeous and its effect on my daughter has been AMAZING! She loved "Dateable" (by Hayley) so this book was an easy purchase for me.

First off, this book is not for dealing with physical bullying, rather, for verbal meanness. This is not a book to help prevent (or even understand Columbine.) Hayley DiMarco tackles the all too common "everyday mean", mean that is just written off as being ingrained into the catty female culture. Hayley gives refreshing counter-culture advice, one that potentially makes peace and wins over enemies while teaching a valuable lesson that the world doesn't revolve around "me" and my "rights".

While a few people might have a pessimistic view of Hayley's out of mainstream methods (she discourages confrontations and the whole "how did that make you feel?" encounter and encourages girls to not take themselves so seriously and focus on higher things), I found the advice highly insightful coming from a woman who was scarred by mean girls in high school all the way through through corporate America. She talks about having all guy friends as a result and rediscovering how she had to "relearn" how to be friends with women.

The last thing you feel like after reading the book is that of a victim. This book gives plenty of practical advice for teen girls dealing with mean, and a bigger spiritual perspective to grow on.

Highly recommended for the teen girl in your life that is open to the concept that life is bigger than just her. If she needs the world to revolve around her, she's probably going to come up empty and still searching for someone else to blame after reading this book (unless she has an epiphany!)

Every teen girl should have a chance to read it. Some of the greatest spiritual figures in history have lived by a similar walk that how you treat people matters more than how they treat you. This message is lost on the cynical. My teen daughter read this book hoping to find help with her mean girl problem and discovered the ways she was encouraging or even being mean. The changes in her have been simply amazing! A must read!!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Book but a lot of repitition, January 9, 2006

By 

Jennifer "Jenn" (Loveland, CO USA) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Mean Girls: Facing Your Beauty Turned Beast (Paperback)

Mean Girls by DiMarco has some great points to offer and she helps spell out what different kinds of mean look like. Unfortunately, she repeats a lot of the same information in different formats and the book becomes redundant. I have been using this book for a junior high small group and it became difficult to really get into any meat after the first 3-4 weeks. For an individual girl, I think it can be helpful to label the subtle ways girls can be mean and ways they can move beyond mean to live a life committed to God first. I appreciate the way she calls it what it is and challenges teens to raise the bar in how they are living. I think watching the movie, Mean Girls, adds more to the book, even though the two are unrelated. Overall, it is a decent book.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DiMarco tells it like it is!, October 1, 2004

By 

Leah Stapley "Bookgirl" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mean Girls: Facing Your Beauty Turned Beast (Paperback)

This book is totally awesome! I sure do wish I had it when I was in high school. I was one who did the tormenting and was also on the flip side as well. DiMarco's style of standing up and being the bigger person - ignoring the bully - is exactly what's needed! You bully someone because it's fun, because it provokes a response. If it doesn't, you move on to something else.

Teaching teens to turn the other cheek is the best lesson one can learn these days. If we are truly striving to be like Jesus, why are we trying to get even, trying to tattle, or trying not to befriend those who aren't 'cool'. Man - I'm sure that Jesus doesn't think I'm the coolest person in the world when I'm not living at my best. But I'm glad He loves me and wants to be my best friend no matter what.

There are MANY valuable lessons to be learned through this book. Girls just need to be receptive to them and remember we are supposed to be Christlike in our behaviors - not like the world. And that's not always easy.