Empowering Bright & Gifted Children

What's a smart girl to do? This series of books are full of tips, quizzes, advice, and real life stories to help smart girls develop the skills to handle any situation. Want help with sticky situations? how to make, save and spend money? what to expect in middle school? how to handle tough and tricky times that come your way? what to do when your friendship is in trouble? how to survive a crush on a boy? These books and full of secrets and skills that they don't teach you in school!

Parents: Middle school is all about change. This book, filled with tips and quizzes, will help your girls feel more confident as they anticipate and adjust to the changes of middle school. Includes insights and information on what to expect, plus advice from other smart girls who’ve already made the grade in middle school.

Girls: Get the scoop on classes, homework, teachers, classrooms, and lockers. Find tips on getting organized, making new friends, and getting involved after school. Knowing what to expect in middle school makes you better prepared to handle anything that comes your way!

Parents: Friendship troubles have long been the subject of thousands of the “Help!” letters received by American Girl® magazine. Now there’s a book on the important issue of girls and relational aggression. This guide will help your girls deal with backstabbing, bullying, betrayal, and other tough friendship problems. It features sound advice, quizzes, tips, and inspiring real-life stories about girls who have overcome their differences and strengthened their friendships.

Girls: You will find advice for solving friendship problems. Tips and quizzes will help you get to know your friends, and yourself, a little bit better. You will meet girls who have gone through serious friendship troubles and learn how they survived!

Parents: This book is full of real-world advice that will help girls through the sticky situations they face in everyday life—from boys, friends, and dealing with emotions to embarrassing moments and difficult days at school. This girl-friendly guide is full of empowering tips from experts, and practical problem-solving strategies.

Girls: This book gives tips and advice on surviving all sorts of sticky situations that you might face in daily life. It also gives you a few big ideas about ways to tackle problems, by giving you strategies that you can use on any problem, not just the ones in the book.

Parents: This is an insightful, age-appropriate guide to boys, the number one topic of conversation for girls ages 10 and over. Here’s straight talk on what to do when everyone’s wondering "who likes who?" The book explores being friends, going out, getting dumped, being yourself, and much more. Letters from girls and advice on boys, along with quizzes and tips, help a girl get her brain back on track when her heart’s in a wreck.

Girls: This book is a guide about surviving crushes, staying true to yourself and other stuff! It includes letters and advice from girls like you, as well as tips, quizzes, and even advice from boys themselves.

Book Review - Booklist: "Although youngsters spend a sadly brief time at the training-wheels stage in their relationships, it’s a confusing period; the advice offered in this book is conservative, age-appropriate, and reassuring."

Parents: This addition to the popular Smart Girl's Guide series helps girls gain money smarts. Quizzes, tips, and quotes from girls make learning about money management fun. The book includes a special section with 101 moneymaking ideas. A link at americangirl.com offers girls the opportunity to print business cards, flyers, and other materials to get their moneymaking ideas up and running with style.

Girls: When you were little you didn't have to think about money. But now that you have some money of your own, you want to make smart decisions about what to do with it. This book is packed with tips on how to make, save, and spend money. It includes lots of quizzes, advice from girls like you, and a list of over 100 money making ideas. You'll even find business cards and other printable items to use on the job at a special "Smart Girl's Guide to Money" link at americangirl.com. Put it all together and you'll be amazed at how much easier it is to get what you want from your money!

Parents: With this comprehensive manners guide, girls learn proper etiquette for everyday events and tricky social situations. The book is filled with great advice on everything from eating in fancy restaurants and handling troublemakers at parties to regaining composure after embarrassing accidents. Humorous illustrations, letters from other girls, and entertaining quizzes make the lessons fun to learn.

Girls: This book is a guide to the secrets of grace, confidence, and being your best. Manners are commonsense guidelines for getting along with other people. Manners prevent you from being selfish and annoying. Manners remind you to be kind. Manners make you better company, and a better person. A girl with manners gets respect because she gives it. She's got the tools to handle all kinds of situations. With manners, girls like you find confidence that they never knew they had!

Parents: Here's a school planner full of useful tips from the Smart Girl's Guides, including how to stand up to bullies, start a business, and survive an embarrassing situation. There's plenty of writing space to help girls stay on top of their schedules, plus a detachable ruler that doubles as a letter stencil, and stickers for marking special events. For extra inspiration, girls can tear out the Smart Cards at the back of the planner to hang in their lockers or share with friends. This planner is a great way for girls to use the tips that they learn in the Smart Girl's Guides!

Girls: Start your school year out smart, with this planner full of tips from our bestselling Smart Girl's Guides. With this guide, you can put all the tips and information from the Smart Girl's Series into action! You find important lessons on every page, such as how to keep a secret, what to do if you flunk a test, and how to talk through tough stuff with friends. It's great advice that you can carry with you throughout the day!