I read this book to determine whether it was appropriate (now or in the future) for my fiancée’s granddaughter and my grandnieces. Full of solid, useful information about girls’ bodies, it combats a lot of the sometimes skewed and plain wrong information they get from the internet and from friends and teaches girls to embrace themselves with confidence and fully armed with real facts. I was a little skeptical about the 9 - 14 year-old target age group, but it is meant for reading and discussing with parents and others who love and care about the healthy physical and emotional development of the girls in their lives. Also helpful to me was a discussion of this book with younger women who work with children in this age group (teacher, psychologist, social worker, and children’s librarian, and provided a lot of insight to me about earlier puberty in kids and, of course, the pervasiveness of information—good and bad—available to kids in ways that were not available to me (or my sons) when growing up. ( )

A good read for girls and women of all ages, one for kids and adults to read together and discuss.

Dr. Markey was a guest on the Book Cougars, Episode 124 (here's the link: https://www.bookcougars.com/blog-1/2021/3/1/episode-124-dr-charlotte-markey-teac...