Girls are pretty ... BRAVE. Girls are pretty ... STRONG. Girls are pretty ... CLEVER. Inclusive, uplifting and celebratory, Girls are Pretty challenges the value that is placed on beauty, and empowers girls to be whoever they want to be.
Author: Susann Hoffman
Publisher:
ISBN: 1760504521
Category:
Page: 10
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Girls are pretty ... BRAVE. Girls are pretty ... STRONG. Girls are pretty ... CLEVER. Inclusive, uplifting and celebratory, Girls are Pretty challenges the value that is placed on beauty, and empowers girls to be whoever they want to be.
In this two-stories-in-one picture book, girls and boys can both be anything regardless of gender--from clever, bold, and kind, to strong, helpful, brave, and more.
Author: Susann Hoffmann
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780593202203
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 32
View: 811
An empowering picture book that celebrates the idea that all children can be anything they choose! There are so many ways for kids to be awesome. They can be smart, kind, bold, funny, and so many other things too! With sweet, simple text and bold illustrations, this book showcases just that notion, and delivers a powerful message directly to the reader: You can be anything you want to be! An inclusive and uplifting picture book that celebrates the potential in all of us.
Sometimes, if an attractive women walks into the room, I tense up a little, I shrink.
I do not, however, use this as an excuse to be rude, nasty or look at her with
contempt. Some guys do. Some guys are nasty to pretty girls. Treat them mean,
keep ...
Thank you for taking a chance on Pretty Girls—I hope this is the first of many
projects together. #yougetme Lucinda Blumenfeld, my agent in life and literature.
You changed my life with one word: “yes,” and my dream of telling this story was
...
Author: Lindsay Jill Roth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781476798653
Category: Fiction
Page: 280
View: 152
Envision Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada in the high-drama, estrogen-infused world of cosmetics, and you have What Pretty Girls Are Made Of—a hilarious debut novel from a writer who’s lived it. In the make-up world, life and love are never cruelty-free... After living in New York City for four years and reaching a dead end on her acting career, Alison Kraft needs a new role—time for a career change. When she reads about the world-famous Sally Steele Cosmetics studio, Alison quickly swoops in to make a good impression and lands a job as an assistant to the diva herself. Surrounded by fantastic new hues of blushes, eye shadows, and glosses, Alison loves her new job and the new swag. Even better, she discovers she’s actually really good at it! But in the midst of juggling her love life, crazy family members, and the grueling demands of a jealous, flaky boss who could put Miranda Priestly to shame, Alison starts to question her choices. How long before the pretty face cracks for good?
Deyanira Garcia. Mommy, mommy, what do pretty girls look like? Are they tall like
the giraffe? No, no, my dear that's not what pretty girls are like. Mommy, mommy,
what do pretty girls look like? Are they.
Author: Deyanira Garcia
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 9781452517858
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 26
View: 896
Deyanira García’s children’s book provides the answer to one of the most important questions girls usually have at many points in their lives, but are too afraid to ask: “What do pretty girls look like?” In this beautiful and colorful book, your child will find herself traveling through the beauty of her being. This beautiful mother and daughter story is one of the best gifts we can give to our little girls. It was written in the hopes that they will use their beauty to continue the transformation process for generations to come.
the hedge , or I should never have escaped ; and then on the way home he grew quite sentimental . It was too amusing ; I was so very dirty , I could not have been
sentimental if I had tried . He became downright pathetic about the mess I had ...
I do know that where the pretty girls are, the men will follow.” “You're not listening.
” “No, I'm listening. I know I can get people out. And I know what kind of
atmosphere elite people want to party in. They don't want people taking pictures
and ...
Author: Daaimah S. Poole
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 9781617730283
Category: Fiction
Page: 320
View: 819
“A voice of her generation.” –Black Issues Book Review Three women are determined to ride their rich men’s successes to the very top... When her marriage to an NFL phenom ended, so did Adrienne Sheppard’s chance at wealth and security. Now she’s betting on her exclusive new nightclub—and her new man—to turn her luck around....Sexy vixen Shanice Whitaker is taking her pay-for-play schemes to a whole new level to stack up the mad fortune of her dreams....And Zakiya Lee is sure she knows how to work the sports fame game straight into full-time professional wife-hood with her NBA star. But soon, all three will learn the hard way that truly making it on their own will cost more than they ever bargained for... “Poole invites readers to the party where players get played. Gold diggers are nothing new, but this is one crazy, in-your-face tale of trysts and ludicrous schemes.” --RT Book Reviews on A Rich Man’s Baby
My girl friend and I just knew we were in for a good time. As we settled in, it felt
like an unwanted ... They were asking to take pictures with us and again telling us
that we were very pretty black girls. Yes, I know this sounds self indulging, but it's
...
Author: Aisha Curry
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781438954097
Category: History
Page: 96
View: 468
Rape Of America exposes the abject failure of our so-called political leaders to stand up for the historical standards and integrity of America and instead pursue their own selfish personal gratification. To add fuel to the fire of America's destruction is hatred between the two parties which has escalated to the point of destroying America.
To become a girl or a woman , then , is to lose subjectivity and strength , and with
them , a strong sense of self . In describing this process , these researchers
depict girls as passive victims of feminine socialization , casting young women as
...
Author: Lauraine Leblanc
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813526515
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 286
View: 469
Discusses how young women use the punk subculture for empowerment and self-identification, constructing their own version of femininity from the ingredients of the style. The book is based in part on the author's own reminiscence of a punk girlhood, as well as interviews with 40 punk girls and women between the ages of 14 and 37 in a handful of cities throughout North America. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Jokes and innocent comments gone horribly wrong are pretty common among
fathers and daughters at this age. Dads don't always get that the things they say
about a girl's appearance—or about a wife's appearance, for that matter—can
often ...
Author: Dara Chadwick
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9780786745494
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 256
View: 802
From You'd Be So Pretty If... I grew up listening to my mom bemoan everything from the size of her thighs to the shape of her eyes. So you can imagine my dismay the first time someone exclaimed, “You look just like your mother!” Every mom wants her daughter to feel confident in her own skin, but may often unconsciously impose her own “body image blueprint.” Dara Chadwick's You'd Be So Pretty If... reveals: • What girls learn when Mom diets • How to talk to your daughter about healthy eating and exercise habits • The trigger words that set off a body image crisis • How to recognize a budding eating disorder With humor and compassion, You'd Be So Pretty If... offers parents fresh and useful strategies for conveying that success isn't negated by carrying extra pounds—or guaranteed by keeping them off.
"More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace.
Author: Karin Slaughter
Publisher: HarperLuxe
ISBN: 1628443952
Category: Family secrets
Page: 674
View: 822
"More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss--a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed. The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago ... and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it"--
Some days are Bad Hair Days. Other days are for Shopping, where you hang out with your BFF, compare Crushes, and ask the eternal question: Does this dress make me look fat? Isn't it great?!*Please note that this is not a children's book
Author: Todd Harris Goldman
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 0761148515
Category: Humor
Page: 80
View: 855
The funny, crude, un-PC, and very savvy author of "Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them!" explains why boys think the opposite sex is weird. Narrated by a boy who's sort of a moron, the book questions all the things that are completely alien to boys, but with a surprisingly sweet insight and good spirit.
Their faces are masks. These fictional stories are about pretty girls, young and old, who don’t feel half as good as they look … and some of the reasons why.
Author: Della
Publisher: SchurrDesign
ISBN:
Category: Fiction
Page: 70
View: 198
The world is full of pretty women, and most of us assume that their lives are charmed. They’ll always get what they want. But if we knew what they were thinking, we might realize that their minds are churning with pain or fear. Their faces are masks. These fictional stories are about pretty girls, young and old, who don’t feel half as good as they look … and some of the reasons why.
How to Survive : for Teenage Girls Dale Bick Carlson, Hannah Carlson. Speaking
of such choices , an interesting point should be made about two female novelists
. As great as she was , George Eliot agonized all her life over not being pretty .
Author: Dale Bick Carlson
Publisher: Bick Publishing House
ISBN: 1884158188
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 231
View: 367
Explains the history of the feminist movement, and explores the ways in which girls can free themselves from their traditional sex roles
... own apartment, I had acquired a vast majority of the furniture and other
decorative items that I desired to make my first place feel like home. I was so
excited. I told Marcus my plans, and he was as ecstatic 130 Nine-You're not so pretty after all.
I've done my homework, read books, websites, and message boards, lurked on
lists, and even questioned a social worker too exhausted to guard her words, and
I know how bad the odds are for girls like me. We wait to be rescued, but for ...
Author: Laura Wiess
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781847396051
Category: Fiction
Page: 224
View: 958
Meredith was promised nine years of safety, but they only gave her three. Her father, who was sent to prison for sexually abusing Meredith and other children in the small town, has been released early on good behaviour. He was supposed to be locked up until Meredith's eighteenth birthday, when she would be free of her abusive father and her delusional mother, who dwells on a fantasy that the three of them will be a happy family once more. But Meredith is only fifteen, and her father is out of prison…and her mother is bringing him home. And Meredith won't let him hurt her, or anyone else, ever again. No matter what the cost. Lyrical, suspenseful, and emotionally shattering, SUCH A PRETTY GIRL is the compelling story of one young woman's painful fight for survival - and her journey back to herself.
is sometimes attributed to girls as their characteristics might be found to be
nothing more than superficialities if our young men took the trouble to find out . Girls are pretty much as men appeal to them . They show their best side when
that side ...
