A Smart Girl's Guide to Manners: The Secrets to Grace, Confidence, and Being Your Best

by Nancy Holyoke

Book Overview

Dinner at a fancy restaurant. A hurtful instant message on the computer. A troublemaking party guest. A cell phone call at an odd moment. Life is full of new experiences and confusing situations.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584859830
• ISBN13: 9781584859833
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

If it was just common sense, we'd all have it!

Give your child a handbook of the survival skills that she will need at school, the workplace and beyond! Yes, first impressions do count, but life situations frequently require tact and sensitivity that must be taught. Learn the wrong set of social behaviors, and you can be blocked from a world of sometimes life-changing opportunities to come. A Smart Girl's Guide To Manners (American Girl Library) is a handbook of those survival skills that will give young ladies an excellent foothold in the social world that frequently requires more than they can offer based on instinct, alone. Highly recommended!

Helps with the tough issues

Fabulous! While this book provides helpful information on everyday subjects like how to behave at a friend's house and the movie theater,it's best advice deals with the tough issues: visiting a dying (and scary) relative in the hospital, bumping into friends at a public birthday party that you weren't invited to and consoling a friend whose parent has died, to name a few. Definitely worth the price for my eight-year-old daughter, who enjoys reading the book as much as I like her learning the appropriate responses to problems that we can't always anticipate.

Great everything!

American Girl has accomplished making books with about everything you ask about in it. it gives you great advice, and i don't think this book has JUST common sense because lots of girls out there wouldn't know some of this stuff. I think it's an awesome book and i think all the American Girl books are awesome.

This book is excellent and fun to read

I noticed a huge difference in an 8 years old's behavior after reading it once. It is a fun read.I would recommend to parents.

great advice!

I thought this book had a lot of useful information. Especially when it comes to friends and parties. I recommend it! I loved the colorful characters in the book.