Patti Kelley Criswell

Offers girls help dealing with backstabbing, bullying, betrayal and other tough friendship problems through advice, quizzes, tips, and accounts of girls who have overcome their differences and strengthened their friendship.

Dealing with Fights, Being Left Out & the Whole Popularity Thing

A Smart Girl's Guide to Friendship Troubles

How do you speak up when you're afraid of hurting your friend's feelings? What do you do after a really big fight? What if your friend leaves you for the popular crowd? Inside you'll find tips quizzes, and real-life stories that can help solve your most common friendship troubles. When your friendship's in trouble, you want help-fast. Here's the advice you need to get through the tough times and help you decide how to deal with friendship dilemmas. Look for these and other bestselling books from American Girl: Book jacket.

A Smart Girl's Guide: Friendship Troubles

Erin Falligant

Darcie Johnston

Aubre Andrus

Melissa Seymour

Patricia Daniels

Nancy Holyoke

Deanna Singh

Judy Woodburn

Amy Lynch

Laurie Zelinger

Therese Kauchak Maring

Julie Williams Montalbano

From American Girl's trusted line of advice books for tweens, the Ultimate Smart Girl's Guide to Being Your Best is the perfect entry book for the Smart Girl's Guide series! An essential, all-in-one Smart Girl’s guide that covers essential tween topics including, self-esteem, sports, family, friends, money, and navigating middle school. The Ultimate collection of Smart Girl's Guides includes excerpts from American Girls' best-selling titles. Get tips, how-tos, and facts from the experts on everything from friends and family to sports and self-esteem to money and middle school. Find answers and advice about standing out, fitting in, getting along, and growing up.

Ultimate Smart Girl's Guide to Being Your Best

Offers advice to help girls find the right words when stressed, shy, sad, or facing other awkward moments and shares tools, tips, and techniques to teach them to speak out with confidence and grace.

Finding the Words to Fit Any Situation

A Smart Girl's Guide to Knowing What to Say

A series of quizzes presents questions and a choice of answers that help girls understand their own problem-solving skills.

What Would You Do?

This accessible book from American Girl helps young readers gain the tools to recognize and handle bullying. Includes wise words to use with bullies, smart ways to ignore them, solid advice on getting an adult's help when needed, and advice from real girls who have been in similar situations.

Dealing with Bullies and Bossiness and Finding a Better Way

Stand Up for Yourself and Your Friends

Here's all you need to know about making friends and making freiendships last. Incuded are quizzes, crafts, thoughtful advice, and true stories of friendship shared by real girls.

Making Them & Keeping Them

Friends

Angela Martini

This book helps girls learn how to spot bullying and stand up and speak out against it. Quizzes, quotes from real girls, and "what would you do?" scenarios give readers lots of ideas for dealing with bullies, including clever comebacks and ways to ask adults for help. Includes an anti-bullying pledge for girls to sign, plus tear-out tips to share with their parents.

From asking for a bigger allowance to apologizing for ruining a friend's favorite book, this guide offers the exact words needed in these more than 200 other situations. Readers will find the tools, tips, techniques (and actual words!) to help them untangle their tongue and speak out with confidence and grace. Full color.

Patti Kelley Criswell

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