Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 305.23082 EAN: 9780156028158 ISBN: 0156028158 Label: Harcourt Manufacturer: Harcourt Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 199 Publication Date: 2004-01-19 Publisher: Harcourt Studio: Harcourt
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Editorial Reviews: The national bestseller Odd Girl Out exposed a hidden culture of cruelty that had always been quietly endured by American girls. As Rachel Simmons toured the country, these girls found their voices and spoke to her about their pain. They wanted to talk-and they weren't the only ones. Mothers, teachers, counselors, young professional women, even fathers, came to Rachel with heart-wrenching personal stories that could no longer be kept secret. Here, Rachel creates a safe place for girls to talk, rant, sound off, and find each other. The result is a collection of wonderful accounts of the inner lives of adolescent girls. Candid and disarming, creative and expressive, and always exceptionally self-aware, these poems, songs, confessions, and essays form a journal of American girlhood. They show us how deeply cruelty flows and how strongly these girls want to change. Odd Girl Out helped girls find their voices; Odd Girl Speaks Out helps them tell their stories. I'm always the odd girl out No one talks to me I try to be friendly and speak out But I'm invisible, see? You know, gossip is a natural thing in high school. I'm one of those girls that will do it right in front of you. I'll whisper at my friends and look at you the whole time. Then we'll all cut up laughing. You know we're talking about you. My best friend and I started being friends with this other girl. But she was fat. It was hard because she always wanted to go down the slide second and she would crush us. We didn't want to tell her she was fat, so we decided to drop her. Her mother called my mother and told her we were being mean. But we just couldn't be friends with her anymore. -from Odd Girl Speaks Out
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: a helpful read for my teenage daughter Comment: I like this book because it has stories submitted by other teenagers so my daughter knows she is not the only one dealing with the issues. Customer Rating: Summary: "Odd Girl" Lives Everywhere Comment: Odd Girl Speaks Out is a book that I can use as a reference in my position as a middle school administrator. The stories told by the teenagers in this book truly help to explain the complexities of adolescent relationships. I laughed and I cried at these bravely shared experiences that happen more often that we'd like to admit. I plan on actually reading some of the stories aloud to girls struggling to fit in with their peers. Customer Rating: Summary: Don't be a parent who doesn't get it... Comment: It is inevitable that our daughters will experience some sort of emotional bullying. Prepare yourself and the ones you love by reading this book and understanding the dynamic. This book helped me to see how my natural reactions "Well Ill just speak to her parents" WRONG "Honey Just talk with her and it will work out" WRONG "She is such a rotten kid! How can she do that?" WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG Sigh. It hasn't changed since we were young- its only better enabled by technology. In any case- information is the best weapon. Read this with your daughter before it happens- you may be able to avoid heartache. Customer Rating: Summary: Helpful conversation starter Comment: This book was recomended by my 6th grader's school counselor after she started making some questionable friend choices. We moved to a new area about a year ago and my two middle school daughters went from a very conservative charter school to a tight knit small town public school. My youger (6th grader) daughter has had a more difficult time adjusting and this helped a lot. My older daughter has always been the over-achiever, and expects the same of her sister. This book hleped a lot even within their relationship as I would consider my older child a "queen bee". This book helped my daughter open up to me more because it was easier for her to start a converstaion about something she read in the book, that happened to someone else, and it would lead us into things she is or has been going through. I read Queen Bees and Wannabes while she was reading this and it seemed to work out well, gave us a common thread and set the stage for planned conversations, something difficult to do well with girls this age. Customer Rating: Summary: Using this book with 11th graders.... Comment: www.rachelsimmons.com First off, I wanted to hook you up with the author's official site. I think that this book is a MUST READ for any 8-12th grader in America! This coupled with the first book, Odd Girl Out coincide with the angst of being a young woman in this day and age. Thank God I don't have to be a teenager now! I have used this text in my book club and it sparks great discussions and is a stepping stone to creating your own student anthology. It works well with tons of films and books, like Mean Girls, 13, or Speak. I can't even think of all the LIFETIME movies that coincide with this book as well. More Reviews