A Smart Girl's Guide to Boys (American Girl) (American Girl Library)
by Nancy Holyoke
List Price:
Our Price: $5.25
You Save: $4.70 (47%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Nancy HolyokeBrand: Books
Illustrator: Bonnie Timmons
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09-01
ISBN: 1584853689
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Amer Girl
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9781584853688
- Condition: New
- Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
Book Reviews of A Smart Girl's Guide to Boys (American Girl) (American Girl Library)
Book Review: Don't Give This to Your Kids
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a poorly worded and confusing book. This is a good way to get them to be shallow, dumb them down, get them into hellish relationships, and send them running to therapists who themselves need therapy. Giving this to them as a gift is also a good way to insult their intelligence.
Examples of a poorly worded sentence and bad reasoning:
On page 9 "A crush lets you try on all kinds of new feelings..." What the? What does that even mean?
On page 13 the author implies that normalcy is something good. It also used the wrong word for what he or she was talking about. Rather than saying something like, "You might find yourself acting anything other than normal around a boy you like" it should have said, "You might find yourself not acting like you usually do". Am I knitpicking? Yes, but for good reason, because what is normal is not always good, and doing what is "normal" gets a lot of kids killed.
It then compounds the problem more by misusing the word "weird" and says certain behaviors are "weird" and even rates them. But "weirdness" isn't bad in itself either and doing something out of the ordinary can actually save people's lives and does all the time. Rather than weird the authors should have said "crazy" or "bad judgment".
The whole book is poorly worded like that.
It's useful however in that it shows what behaviors are likely to get you made fun of and isolated, and can be helpful for parents too, but definitely do not give this to a newly saved Christian as a gift and not explain what's wrong with it or you may end up leading them astray.
Summary of A Smart Girl's Guide to Boys (American Girl) (American Girl Library)
Like the Care and Keeping of You, this book will help girls and parents start important conversations when the whole class is abuzz with Who Likes Who fever. Unlike the teen titles on the market that focus on dating and romance, this book addresses a girl's very first forays into the boy/girl world and gives her wise, warm advice. Help! letters from girls--collected from our AmericanGirl magazine files--and quizzes are included, too.Emotions & Feelings Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Emotions & Feelings Books
Technical Foul: Winning Seasonby Rich Wallace
Puffin; Published: 2005-06-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.74
Price in other shops:
Don't Forget I Love Youby Miriam Moss
Puffin; Published: 2005-12-29; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.79
Price in other shops:
Flip-Flop Girlby Katherine Paterson
Puffin; Published: 1996-02-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.95
Price in other shops:
Daniel's Duck (I Can Read Book 3)by Clyde Robert Bulla
HarperCollins; Published: 1979-11-06; Library Binding; Book
Best price: $12.95
Price in other shops:
It's Hard to Be Five (rpkg): Learning How to Work My Control Panelby Jamie Lee Curtis
Joanna Cotler; Published: 2004-09-01; Library Binding; Book
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops:
Angelina at the Fair (Angelina Ballerina)by Katharine Holabird
Puffin; Published: 2006-01-19; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.98
Price in other shops:
Red Kayakby Priscilla Cummings
Puffin Books; Puffin; Published: 2006-04-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.50
Price in other shops:
Wemberly Worriedby Kevin Henkes
Greenwillow Books; Published: 2010-04-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.92
Price in other shops:
The Giving Treeby Shel Silverstein
Harper Collins Publishers; Harper & Row; Published: 1964; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $7.98
Price in other shops:
The Runaway Bunnyby Margaret Wise Brown
HarperCollins; Published: 1942-06-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.96
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
A Smart Girl's Guide to Styleby Sharon Cindrich
American Girl; Published: 2010-03-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.99
Price in other shops:
A Smart Girl's Guide to the Internet (American Girl)by Sharon Cindrich
American Girl; Published: 2009-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.95
Price in other shops:
A Smart Girl's Guide to Staying Home Alone (American Girl)by Dottie Raymer
Books; American Girl; Published: 2009-03-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.52
Price in other shops:
A Smart Girl's Guide to Manners (American Girl) (American Girl Library)by Nancy Holyoke
Books; Amer Girl; Published: 2005-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
A Smart Girl's Guide to Money (American Girl) (American Girl Library)by Nancy Holyoke
Books; Amer Girl; Published: 2006-03-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops:
Yikes! A Smart Girl's Guide To Surviving Tricky, Sticky, Icky Situationsby American Girl Editors
Books; Amer Girl; Published: 2002-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.62
Price in other shops:
A Smart Girl's Guide to Starting Middle School (American Girl) (American Girl Library)by Julie Williams Montalbano
Pleasant Company Publications; Published: 2004-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.43
Price in other shops:
A Smart Girl's Guide to Friendship Troublesby Patti Kelley Criswell
Books; American Girl; Published: 2003-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.74
Price in other shops:
A Smart Girl's Guide to Knowing What to Say (American Girl)by Patti Kelley Criswell
American Girl; Published: 2011-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.76
Price in other shops:
The Feelings Book: The Care & Keeping of Your Emotions (American Girl) (American Girl Library)by Dr. Lynda Madison
Books; Amer Girl; Published: 2002-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.96
Price in other shops: