Do You Know Who You Are?

by Megan Kaye, Allison Singer (Editor)

What do your music choices reveal about your personality? What kind of a risk-taker are you? How have your changed since you were a kid? Where do you fit in your immediate family? What makes you happy -- really, truly happy?

Learn about your skills, dreams, desires, and personality with "Do You Know Who You Are?," a guided journal for young adults who want to discover more about themselves. Part quiz book, part self-help book, and part activity book, "Do You Know Who You Are?" is packed with questionnaires, creative activities, fascinating analysis, and psychological wisdom. Created in collaboration with a professional psychologist who specializes in childhood and adolescence, this book provides an enjoyable and insightful journey for teenage girls who are interested in delving deeper into their true selves.

With fun, bold visuals, thought-provoking quotes, and an interactive fill-in format, "Do You Know Who You Are?" speaks directly to young adult readers. It offers helpful tips and clear guidance, encouraging teens to develop a strong sense of self, and reassuring them that it's just fine to be exactly who they are.

Genres: Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published July 21, 2014

Reviews

[Melissa Price · Rating 4 out of 5]

by Michelle Starkey

I recieved this yesterday and flew right through it. It is out of my age range, however as a home education family I immediately felt a connection and somewhat of a pre-knowledge of exactly how it would be and I was correct in those feelings. Loved it very much and actually wish there was an adult version because many of the questions actually did pertain to many of my own only circumstances on a different age bracket level. I now intend to sit with my kids to go through this or let them go through it on their own.

It is fun, insightful, colorful which kept the interest and it really left a lot open for self reflection. After you answer the questions on two pages, the following pages give you the "score"/meaning like the quizzes of higher/lower number means......and if you had more of letters A-E then you fall into this category type of activities. This same theme continues throughout the book. I really enjoyed the fact that if you read what your answers are supposed to mean and you don't agree, there's a place above that asks "Do you agree" and why or why not. All with places to write directly in the book.

It has far too many activities and cool things to do to mention and it's an unfinished proof so I can't quote anything, however I can easily say I wish they had books like this when I was in the targeted age range. If you really allow yourself to have fun with it and answer the questions as true to yourself (or of course your teens) as possible and find the answers, there leaves a lot of room for self reflection. Wonderful thing to just 'BE'. From what color are you, what Chinese animal are you to yoga, full pages of write in answers about books, music, television, the good and the bad of the internet etc etc etc there is so much for your kids to pull out of this.

I'd love to quote many things (and the book is also filled with many wonderful quotes), but I can't according to the review rules so I'll just say.....Wonderful book, I'm hoping now for others from this publisher which I've seen on their website and I definitely recommend this book for all teens and even younger and older. It's fun, but it would be great to know that people are reading it and pulling everything out of the book and themselves as they can to learn more about 'you' and help live a more enriched life simply by reflecting from what you're given here. A powerful and positive tool.

I hope this review isn't a complete mess, but I highly recommend the book and I hope to get my hands on and by the same publisher. I know they'd be amazing for my girls and even enjoyable for myself. Always the curious researching brain :)

Side note: I Hope it's okay to post this here with it being an unfinished proof. On page 150 it talks about "your color and what it says about you and your relationship with nature". Your color is determined early on in the book and on page 150 it tells you to (if you don't remember your color, to go back to the page to refresh your memory) however the page is actually on page 22 and not page 18 as the book says. It wasn't hard to find the right page to refer to, I'm sure it's something that will be fixed for the final edit, but I did want to note that for the publisher. My review is probably filled with typos and auto corrects at the moment from typing this on a mobile device.

Thank you to Goodreads and DK Publishing for the opportunity to read your book which I won through the First Reads program and I look forward to the others I have seen on your website.

[Ayat Sabry · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I cudve done that excercise when I was a teenager ... its different the way you write everything down being directed to and not just writing resolutions on ur own.... if u like personality tests u will absolutely LUV this !! :)

[AnnaBellaK · Rating 5 out of 5]

its great book for every young lady -it has fun tasks to do ,awesome tests to fill out :D and fun info as well definetly good self-help book

[Jennifer B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is definitely for girls younger than I, but it was still fun to do, and useful for asking myself questions I may not otherwise ask. I picked it up to do with my younger students as a fun activity for those with a high English level, and ended up having a bit of fun with it myself.

[Carolyne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved a lot of the activities in this book, looking forward to using several of these with the teenagers on my caseload!

[Connor (marpy) · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm simply not the intended demographic. It was kinda fun to read to see where I stand with more of the psychology stuff- I thought it would be more about that sort of thing. There were some classic quizzes from psych to astrology to hypothetical situations. However, there's only so much that quizzes and exercises can give you answers to- experience will lead to actual answers. At the end of the day, I know who I are lol

If I had a daughter in her teens, I'd probably give this to her to work through if she wanted to. Doesn't hurt to be conscientious, and some of these are just for fun

[Donnajo · Rating 4 out of 5]

read/review for well read for honest opinion.

it was interesting alot of pages with questions that would be fun for a YA. I past it on to Lauren.

[Clare · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had so much fun filling in this book! It really does give lots of exercises and resources, just for you to look back on, if nothing else.

[Allie Singer]

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[Elizabeth Golding · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a young adult workbook full of questionnaires, tests, quizzes, writing activities, and thoughtful experiments. I checked it out of the library, but after 15 pages and three activities I realized I need to buy this for myself. A book begging to be written in.