Girltalk Fourth Edition: All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You (Paperback)

by Carol Weston (Author) "Too fat, too flat, too tall, too small-are you 100 percent happy with your appearance?..." (more)
Key Phrases: New York, United States, Planned Parenthood (more...)

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Product Description
From bra shopping to babysitting, from making close friends to making great grades, Girltalk has all the answers

Upbeat and up-to-date, honest and hip, Girltalk is an "indispensable guide" (Working Mother) for girls ages eleven to eighteen. This Fourth Edition is the ultimate preteen and teen source for advice on:

• Body: looking and feeling your best
• Friendship: you don't like everybody -- why should everybody like you?
• Love: falling in, falling out
• Sex: what you should know before saying yes
• Family: making the best of your nest
• Education: getting through school, getting into college
• Money: making it, saving it, spending it
• Smoking, Drinking, and Drugs: advice without lectures
• Quizzes: getting to know yourself

About the Author
Although Carol Weston was born in the last century, she isn't that old. Carol is the advice columnist for Girls' Life Magazine and the author of Girltalk: All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You and For Girls Only: Wise Words, Good Advice. Both books are out in Chinese. Carol does not speak Chinese but she does speak french and Spanish, and graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a degree in French and Spanish literature. She also has an M.A. from Middlebury College.

Carol has appeared on The View and has been a guest of Oprah, Montel, Ricki, Geraldo, and Sally. She's written for Seventeen, Teen, YM, Parents, Redbook, Family Circle, and Glamour, and has done author chats on Yahoo and ivillage. Her first novel is The Diary of Melanie Martin. Carol lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters and their rabbit, Honey Bunny. Carol enjoys being a girl even though she's a grown-up.

Product Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; 4 edition (July 20, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060585757
• ISBN-13: 978-0060585754
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #492,939 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I WISH I'D HAD THIS BOOK, April 25, 2005

By	Kathleen Lathen "momofthree" (usa) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is one of those books that can absolutely change a girl's life. Girltalk can help a girl make smart decisions and feel good about who she is. It covers really complicated subjects in such a friendly comfortable way, that it's just amazing. I'll be giving my daughters copies because both my nieces are huge fans of this book and of the author's advice column in GL magazine.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Girltalk from someone who really knows, March 14, 2005

By	Tara A. Rodman (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I first read Girltalk in middle school and I remember how reassuring so much of Weston's advice was on issues such as body image and relating to boys, and how informative the sections were on how to deal with long-distance friendships or the first whispers floating around school about alcohol and drugs. Now a sophomore in college, I recently paged through the book and was struck by how true (and, in fact, relevant) the advice still was. Girltalk mixes real letters from readers and answers to them, with Weston's own memories, research, and comforting advice, all of which makes this book ideal for girls of all ages.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The one book a girl these days MUST have!, August 10, 2004

By	Karen Lausa (Littleton, CO USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the real thing...wise, clear, brutally honest and sincere. Carol Weston understand the joys and challenges of growing up female, being in limbo between girlhood and womanhood and being pulled in different directions between the strong voices of peers, parents and the often too quiet voice of true self. This is a book my eleven year old daughter has sunk her teeth into, and it will serve her in a way that no corny "Chicken Soup for the..." will. Growing up isn't always neat and tidy, and sex, divorce, boys, etc. are topics that girls need to think about. Carol Weston can reach them like no other writer I know. Beautifully written, moving and genuine, this book takes hold in a way that a squeamish birds and the bees talk is unable to.Our girls need to know this stuff, and parents, you do too!