"Queen Bees and Wanna Bees" by Rosalind Wiseman available at the Member Services Table.  Parents of Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Girls need to read this book about adolescent life for girls.  This gives you an inside look at the world of today's girls and gives you a tremendous amount of powerful information to help your student navigate the teen years.  You can pick up your copy at the Member Services Table or from Peggy Cross in the office for $11.

REVIEW EXCERPT:
This is a truly remarkable book, extremely well-organized, inspirational, and full of real practical advice. Wiseman first details the different social roles girls play in adolescent 'societey' - what she calls "Girl World" - such as the Queen Bee, the Banker, the Target. Then she describes the different kind of social dilemmas these roles can cause. But - most importantly -she tells readers (presumably parents) WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.

This is not just proscriptive advice, although there is a lot of that too (e.g., "how to tell if she's had a party while you were away"). One thing that really impressed me about Wiseman's approach is that she gives parents an entire way of approaching problems that they can share with their daughters.

In other words, she doesn't tell you what your rules should be (she leaves that to YOU, thank goodness), but she does tell you how to get your daughter to think about why you as a parent have created them and your family's values should mean to her.