A Smart Girl's Guide: Drama, Rumors & Secrets. Nancy Holyoke

      

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       Illustrations: Brigette Barrager

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      Holyoke, Nancy.

      Drama, rumors & secrets : staying true to yourself in changing times /

       by Nancy Holyoke ; illustrated by Brigette Barrager.

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       Dear Reader,

      In the following pages, girls like you speak out about

       drama.

      They talk about feuds, gossip, jealousy, competition,

       teasing, backstabbing, and exclusion—problems that are

       familiar to almost every girl between the ages of seven

       and seventeen.

      Drama often hits a peak around the time a girl goes to

       middle school, but it may start a lot earlier. Some girls

       seem to thrive on it. Others suffer badly. Many feel

       swept along by a situation that brings out the worst in

       just about everybody.

      As one girl wrote in a post to American Girl: “Drama stinks,

       but everyone has to deal with it.”

      This book shows you how to do just that. It explores why

       drama exists, how a drama starts, what keeps a drama

       going, and how to cool one down. Along the way, you’ll

       find quizzes that can help you see how friends create

       drama, and how you might be contributing to it yourself.

       How can you avoid drama? How can you handle a dramatic

       friend? What can you do to protect yourself when a

       drama’s raging? That’s all here, too.

      By the final pages, we hope you have a whole new under-

       standing of what drama is actually about—and a new

       appreciation for the power you have to stop it.

       Your friends at American Girl

       contents

       feelings rule

       the daily drama

       tears and fears

       experiments

       the problem with drama

       rewrite the script

       among friends

       “sit with us”

       us and them

       Quiz: membership dues

       bffs

       Quiz: behind the scenes

       scenes from a drama

       Quiz: are you a drama queen?

       rewrite the script

       angry & annoyed

       Quiz: what do you do when you’re mad?

       being in a fight

       friendship fix-up

       escaping the drama

       scenes from a drama