Girl Power

Rating:
Summary: parts are good, parts are not.
Review: The works of the young women are excellent, and Ms. Carlip should be commended for including such groups as sorority girls and beauty queens is the book, but I think it could have been helpful for her to include more on the currently relevant topics, such as teen mothers, lesbian and bisexual girls, and even rappers and skaters. These sections are good, but too short. I believe that there are more female skaters and rappers who have trouble with low self esteem and being accepted for who they are than girls in sororities. It is an overall decent book though, and get it if you'd like to read sometimes disturbing, most often just truthful accounts of what it's like to be Native American or a surfer.

Rating:
Summary: BORING & DULL
Review: This book breaks up into 13 chapters.All about true stories and poems written by girls.Some of the chapters include riot Grrls,Teen mothers,Farm Chicks etc.The girls write about there
lifes and experiences.Yet the writing is sometimes bad.It was
a disappiontment for me.

Rating:
Summary: Inspiration To-Go for all the Young Women out There
Review: This book made me laugh, it made me cry, and it made me scream "HELL YEAH!". This book is really wonderful. It contatins personal stories from many different girls. The girls featured in this book were all different, they had different interests, different historys, they were from different classes and "scenes", yet this book illustrated that they were all fundamentally alike where it really mattered. They all had weaknesses, and they all had strengths. They all cried and made mistakes. They all had friends, goals, and dreams. They were all real and honest. Everyone from the "home girls" to the "riot grrrls" to the "teen moms". Their stories and lives are honest, strong, inspirational, gut-wrenching, powerful, and 100% real. This isn't fiction. This is real life. I really suggest that you buy this book for yourself, or any teenaged-twenty-something women you know. Maybe you don't think you need this, or that they'll need this, but once they read it they'll wonder how they ever got along without reading it.

Rating:
Summary: So Much Insight!!
Review: This book was such a find! I have 3 younger sisters, and have been trying to find something on the subject of "differences" that could help each of them understand the other ones a little bit better. I have now bought 3 more copies of this book and it has really started a wonderful dialogue between us. Thank You!!

Rating:
Summary: Good Book For Girls To Read
Review: This book would be really good for all teenage girls to read. Some sections are more interesting than others, but the whole book adresses things that need to be said and people that need to be understood. The book features un-edited versions of what the girls wrote, so there are many spelling and grammer mistakes; as well as language that some parents may object to. However, I think teenage girls should be required to read this book. Some of the attitudes in this book are a little out of date; but the messages remain the same.