by Kaz Cooke

 

Girl Stuff has everything girls need to know about: friends, body changes, shopping, clothes, make-up, pimples (arrghh), sizes, hair, earning money, guys, embarrassment, what to eat, moods, smoking, why diets suck, handling love and heartbreak, exercise, school stress, sex, beating bullies and mean girls, drugs, drinking, how to find new friends, cheering up, how to get on with your family, and confidence.

 

Each chapter includes facts, hints, inspiring lists, hundreds of quotes from real girls, and details for over 350 websites, books and other information. Written in extensive consultation with more than 70 medical, and practical experts, Girl Stuff provides the most up-to-date and useful information possible.

 

This book was shortlisted for the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards - Book of the Year.

 

Kaz Cooke is an Australian author and cartoonist, and former teenage girl. She has a background in journalism and flibbertigibbeting. She is often a columnist; sometimes a radio broadcaster; the best-selling author of Up the Duff, Kidwrangling, The Little Book of Stress and Real Gorgeous; and the winner of the 2002 UK Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year, Living with Crazy Buttocks.

 

Paperback. 564 pages.

 

Age 9-12