Growing Up Powerful

A Guide to Keeping Confident When Your Body Is Changing, Your Mind Is Racing, and the World Is . . . Complicated

Illustrated by Caribay Marquina
Paperback
$20.00 US
On sale May 09, 2023 | 288 Pages | 9781953424457

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The Confidence Code for Girls meets The Care & Keeping of You in this bold, bighearted book about growing up with unshakable confidence.

Puberty comes with a lot of changes for girls today. There’s the thrilling stuff: making friends, discovering their superpowers, and finding their voices. Then there are the not-so-fun parts: body changes, school stress, and totally understandable social anxiety. It’s enough to make a Rebel Girl's head spin! That’s where we come in.

Filled with helpful advice, Q&As between experts and girls around the world, and fun quizzes, Growing Up Powerful has the inside scoop on all things girlhood, and gives tweens and teens the tools they need to become their most confident selves.
Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform entertainment brand, dedicated to inspiring and instilling confidence in a generation of girls around the world. Rebel Girls started from a 2016 international bestselling children's book, featuring real-life, extraordinary women throughout history, geography and field of excellence, focusing on creators, innovators, leaders and champions. Its community of self-identified Rebel Girls spans more than 100 countries, with six million books sold in 51 languages and 13 million podcast downloads. View titles by Rebel Girls
© Emily Shechtman
Nona Willis Aronowitz is the sex and love columnist for Teen Vogue. Her work has been published in the New York Times, The Cut, Elle, VICE, The Washington Post, and Playboy, among many others. She is the co-author of Girldrive: Criss-crossing America, Redefining Feminism (Seal Press, 2009). She is also the editor of an award-winning anthology of Ellen Willis’s rock criticism, called Out of the Vinyl Deeps (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2011), as well as a comprehensive collection of her mother's work, The Essential Ellen Willis (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2014), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. View titles by Nona Willis Aronowitz

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The Confidence Code for Girls meets The Care & Keeping of You in this bold, bighearted book about growing up with unshakable confidence.

Puberty comes with a lot of changes for girls today. There’s the thrilling stuff: making friends, discovering their superpowers, and finding their voices. Then there are the not-so-fun parts: body changes, school stress, and totally understandable social anxiety. It’s enough to make a Rebel Girl's head spin! That’s where we come in.

Filled with helpful advice, Q&As between experts and girls around the world, and fun quizzes, Growing Up Powerful has the inside scoop on all things girlhood, and gives tweens and teens the tools they need to become their most confident selves.

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Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform entertainment brand, dedicated to inspiring and instilling confidence in a generation of girls around the world. Rebel Girls started from a 2016 international bestselling children's book, featuring real-life, extraordinary women throughout history, geography and field of excellence, focusing on creators, innovators, leaders and champions. Its community of self-identified Rebel Girls spans more than 100 countries, with six million books sold in 51 languages and 13 million podcast downloads. View titles by Rebel Girls
© Emily Shechtman
Nona Willis Aronowitz is the sex and love columnist for Teen Vogue. Her work has been published in the New York Times, The Cut, Elle, VICE, The Washington Post, and Playboy, among many others. She is the co-author of Girldrive: Criss-crossing America, Redefining Feminism (Seal Press, 2009). She is also the editor of an award-winning anthology of Ellen Willis’s rock criticism, called Out of the Vinyl Deeps (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2011), as well as a comprehensive collection of her mother's work, The Essential Ellen Willis (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2014), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. View titles by Nona Willis Aronowitz

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