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*National Bestseller*

“If you have a teenage girl in your life, you need to read this.” —Oprah Daily

In the vein of Reviving Ophelia and Untangled comes a fresh, unexpected, and empowering guide to better understand teenage girls, revealing how their insights can create heartfelt connections and impactful…

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I picked up this book because I write YA, and it's all about teenaged girls and what's important to them. But I didn't expect that my inner teenager would keep raising her hand and saying, "Yes! Why did no one understand that?"

This book was both incredibly informative and healing. I loved how the author approached these teenaged girls, taking them seriously and really listening to what they had to say. In my opinion, we adults often don't take teenagers seriously because we remember how often we got things wrong. (I could write an entire book on the things…

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