Mean Girls: Facing Your Beauty Turned Beast | 
| Author: Hayley, Dimarco
Publisher: Revell
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $8.60
You Save: $6.39 (43%)
New (40) Used (5) from $8.60
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 463307
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0800732936
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.833
EAN: 9780800732936
ASIN: 0800732936
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.
| |
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Why is it so tough to be a girl? Whether it's at school, in the mall, or even online, girls are mean to each other. Most girls will admit that they have been a victim of a mean girl. In fact, many will say that all girls are basically mean. Whether they're teasing a girl because of how she looks, making up rumors to torment others, or launching an online campaign to destroy their target, girls can be just plain ruthless. This one-of-a-kind book has helped end the cycle of meanness for tens of thousands of girls. Mean Girls is a call to spiritual strength. A call to stand firm. It calls girls to face the beasts in their lives head on. In short, it's the answer girls need for the problem they never thought could go away. This completely revised edition of Mean Girls will reach junior highers and high schoolers where they are with the help and advice they crave. It has been redesigned inside and out to match the award-winning look of DiMarco's other popular books.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Super sized advice September 29, 2004
"Salty" Sandy (Oceanside, CA)
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
This book looks gorgeous and its effect on my daughter has been AMAZING! She loved "Dateable" (by Hayley) so this book was an easy purchase for me.
First off, this book is not for dealing with physical bullying, rather, for verbal meanness. This is not a book to help prevent (or even understand Columbine.) Hayley DiMarco tackles the all too common "everyday mean", mean that is just written off as being ingrained into the catty female culture. Hayley gives refreshing counter-culture advice, one that potentially makes peace and wins over enemies while teaching a valuable lesson that the world doesn't revolve around "me" and my "rights".
While a few people might have a pessimistic view of Hayley's out of mainstream methods (she discourages confrontations and the whole "how did that make you feel?" encounter and encourages girls to not take themselves so seriously and focus on higher things), I found the advice highly insightful coming from a woman who was scarred by mean girls in high school all the way through through corporate America. She talks about having all guy friends as a result and rediscovering how she had to "relearn" how to be friends with women.
The last thing you feel like after reading the book is that of a victim. This book gives plenty of practical advice for teen girls dealing with mean, and a bigger spiritual perspective to grow on.
Highly recommended for the teen girl in your life that is open to the concept that life is bigger than just her. If she needs the world to revolve around her, she's probably going to come up empty and still searching for someone else to blame after reading this book (unless she has an epiphany!)
Every teen girl should have a chance to read it. Some of the greatest spiritual figures in history have lived by a similar walk that how you treat people matters more than how they treat you. This message is lost on the cynical. My teen daughter read this book hoping to find help with her mean girl problem and discovered the ways she was encouraging or even being mean. The changes in her have been simply amazing! A must read!!
DiMarco tells it like it is! October 2, 2004
Leah Stapley (Florida)
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is totally awesome! I sure do wish I had it when I was in high school. I was one who did the tormenting and was also on the flip side as well. DiMarco's style of standing up and being the bigger person - ignoring the bully - is exactly what's needed! You bully someone because it's fun, because it provokes a response. If it doesn't, you move on to something else.
Teaching teens to turn the other cheek is the best lesson one can learn these days. If we are truly striving to be like Jesus, why are we trying to get even, trying to tattle, or trying not to befriend those who aren't 'cool'. Man - I'm sure that Jesus doesn't think I'm the coolest person in the world when I'm not living at my best. But I'm glad He loves me and wants to be my best friend no matter what.
There are MANY valuable lessons to be learned through this book. Girls just need to be receptive to them and remember we are supposed to be Christlike in our behaviors - not like the world. And that's not always easy.
 Good Book but a lot of repitition January 10, 2006
Jennifer (Loveland, CO USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Mean Girls by DiMarco has some great points to offer and she helps spell out what different kinds of mean look like. Unfortunately, she repeats a lot of the same information in different formats and the book becomes redundant. I have been using this book for a junior high small group and it became difficult to really get into any meat after the first 3-4 weeks. For an individual girl, I think it can be helpful to label the subtle ways girls can be mean and ways they can move beyond mean to live a life committed to God first. I appreciate the way she calls it what it is and challenges teens to raise the bar in how they are living. I think watching the movie, Mean Girls, adds more to the book, even though the two are unrelated. Overall, it is a decent book.
 buy it...read it...enjoy it by Jasmin T. May 3, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I thought it was really interesting to read about why girls act mean and what you can do against it. What Hayley DiMarco writes about this topic is REALLY true and so I recommend the book to everyone who is interested in "mean girls" and their behaviour and wants to know why it's "so NOT easy to be a female".
If you want to know more about "mean girls" watch the movie "MEAN GIRLS - watch your back" and let me tell you: this is not just another teen movie!
It has change my life!!!! July 17, 2006
Gabriela Pineda (Manhattan Beach, Ca)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I think I came across this book because GOd knew I needed to read this amazing book..All of my life ive struggle with mean girls till this day I still do..Ive read this book and I couldnt put it down..yes it has a lot of repitions but its only to remind us whats important to keep in mind..Im really glad I came across this book..I just wish I could have read it when I was younger..I highly recommend it!!
|
|
|
