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Be True to Yourself: A Daily Guide for Teenage Girls
#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Maturing, School & Education, Bullying Issues, Dating & Intimacy
In this book of short daily meditations and essays, Amanda Ford, a young adult herself, offers stories, information, and advice on all the important issues facing young women boys, dating, drinking, self-respect, self-love, fights with friends, dealing with parents, and more.
Support for young women as they navigate one of the most confusing and challenging times of their lives. When Amanda Ford emerged from her tumultuous teenage years, she saw the need for a guide to help girls learn to listen to their inner voices and think for themselves. Be True To Yourself is the big sister Amanda never had―and always wanted to be. It provides the encouragement and guidance she wished, as a teenage girl, that an older sister had given her, as well as stories and advice that she would have loved to share with a younger sister during her own teen years.
Your daughter, granddaughter, niece, or young friend will learn to listen to her heart with this coming-of-age guide. Girls will find comfort, encouragement, and insight in these pages, along with suggestions for articulating and confiding their feelings, fears, and frustrations. They will learn more about so many important topics introduced during adolescence, such
If you appreciated self-development books for teens like The Ultimate Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens , Just As You Are , You Don't Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way , or Embracing the Awkward , then you’ll love Be True to Yourself .
In this book of short daily meditations and essays, Amanda Ford, a young adult herself, offers stories, information, and advice on all the important issues facing young women boys, dating, drinking, self-respect, self-love, fights with friends, dealing with parents, and more.
Support for young women as they navigate one of the most confusing and challenging times of their lives. When Amanda Ford emerged from her tumultuous teenage years, she saw the need for a guide to help girls learn to listen to their inner voices and think for themselves. Be True To Yourself is the big sister Amanda never had―and always wanted to be. It provides the encouragement and guidance she wished, as a teenage girl, that an older sister had given her, as well as stories and advice that she would have loved to share with a younger sister during her own teen years.
Your daughter, granddaughter, niece, or young friend will learn to listen to her heart with this coming-of-age guide. Girls will find comfort, encouragement, and insight in these pages, along with suggestions for articulating and confiding their feelings, fears, and frustrations. They will learn more about so many important topics introduced during adolescence, such
If you appreciated self-development books for teens like The Ultimate Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens , Just As You Are , You Don't Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way , or Embracing the Awkward , then you’ll love Be True to Yourself .
- GenresSelf Help
395 pages, Paperback
First published August 31, 2000
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About the author
Amanda Ford
32 books4 followersAmanda Ford is a young, vibrant writer with a talent for uncovering extraordinary meaning in everyday events. Amanda's work has been featured in publications such as Real Simple, Glamour, The Chicago Tribune, and The Seattle Times, and she is a regular contributor to the popular travel website Girl's Guide to City Life.
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December 14, 2020
I received a complimentary copy.
Each day of the month shares a piece of the author's heart and the guide is just like it is written by a teenager so that it might connect with problems that some kids may face in the now. You can peek into what it might have been like for one girl going through life at a real time pace.
Each day of the month shares a piece of the author's heart and the guide is just like it is written by a teenager so that it might connect with problems that some kids may face in the now. You can peek into what it might have been like for one girl going through life at a real time pace.
July 13, 2021
A beautiful book, where you can learn a lot of things
July 30, 2013
Be True to Yourself: A Daily Guide for Teenage Girls by Amanda Ford is a non-fiction book written in the form of a daily reading for 365 days offering guidance to teenage girls. The advice is written in a youthful voice and the language of a 20 year old woman which young girls relate to easily. The issues and themes are common to young women including family and friend relationships, homosexuality, fitting in with peers, breaking the law, bad peer influences, substance abuse, and becoming sexually active. This book offers simple and succinct advice, but refers readers to web sites that offer more detailed information. The tone is uplifting and is loaded with positive self image boosts and encouragement to overcome daily challenges, while at the same time finding your personal identity. The sometime humorous and always relevant issues are perfect for young girls coming of age and experiencing the typical feelings of inferiority and insecurity. The advice is often to keep teens focused on the important character traits they should be developing and how to deal with negative peer pressure. This is an easy daily read and a great way to focus young adult girls each day on staying strong and leading their lives successfully, while reducing the drama to a minimum.
November 11, 2009
This book is so bad I won't even be passing it along.
The author says in the intro this is the advice she wishes she had a little sister to pass it along to. Like how to sneak out and not get caught. My daughter doesn't need that kind of big sister.
This is a 20 yr old trying to justify and validate the selfish, self-centered behavior of her teens. Paraphrased: Do what you want, you deserve to be happy. If others don't like it, they just don't value your individuality.
She does, seemingly by pure chance, happen to give a nugget or two of decent advice. But buried amid the 300+ horrid bits of "wisdom", I would shred this book just to ensure it doesn't fall into my daughter's hands and make her a narcissistic copy of the author.
The author says in the intro this is the advice she wishes she had a little sister to pass it along to. Like how to sneak out and not get caught. My daughter doesn't need that kind of big sister.
This is a 20 yr old trying to justify and validate the selfish, self-centered behavior of her teens. Paraphrased: Do what you want, you deserve to be happy. If others don't like it, they just don't value your individuality.
She does, seemingly by pure chance, happen to give a nugget or two of decent advice. But buried amid the 300+ horrid bits of "wisdom", I would shred this book just to ensure it doesn't fall into my daughter's hands and make her a narcissistic copy of the author.
May 9, 2009
A great book. I suggest it for any teen. :) You'll see this book in my currently reading shelf for the next year, because it goes day by day for a year.
February 18, 2009
It was very good indeed, but I'm not psyched about it. It has all kinds of nice, light stories we teens can relate to.
July 22, 2010
Bought this for my pre-teen and it's fabulous. Highly recommend it for 12ish and similar.
It's a daily guide, so a page for each day of the year.
It's a daily guide, so a page for each day of the year.
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