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A Guys' Guide to Stress; A Girls' Guide to Stress
Wow, are you stressed out. Guys, you have to find a way to study for a big test and still make it to soccer practice. Girls, your parents are upset with you about your latest report card, but your mind is on the big fight you had with your best friend. This cool, reversible book talks about the reasons why stress happens and gives easy-to-follow advice that can help teens avoid a complete meltdowns. Readers can then flip the book over and read how the other gender deals with their stressful lives.
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This cleverly designed series explores selected emotions and offers strategies for handling them. Each volume has a section geared toward boys, with a note on the cover instructing girls to flip the book over, and vice versa. When the volume is flipped, a book for the opposite gender is revealed. The book about conflict focuses on how to avoid it by improving one's communication skills and how to positively resolve unavoidable conflict. The girls' section, written by a female author, offers advice on handling cliques, "mean girls," bullies, and parents. Much of the information is repeated in the boys' section. Interestingly the girls' section includes a chapter on divorce and blended families, a topic not addressed in the boys' section. In contrast, the boys' section, written by a male author, includes the chapter, Are You a Bully?" which takes a different approach than the discussion in the girls' book. Both sections pop with color photographs and interesting inserts. The volume on stress mirrors the format of the volume on conflict, and includes examples of healthy and unhealthy ways to deal with this emotion. Again much of the information is the same in the girls' and boys' portions of the book, and parts of both sections could be useful to anyone.
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Grades
5-6 IL
Grades
5-12+ GRL
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