"This fun and reassuring book offers advice specifically for girls on how to navigate and thrive throughout their middle-grade years. Chapters cover a variety of experiences, from first-day-of-school jitters, puberty, friendships, cyberbullying, developing study skills, healthy habits, handling crushes and dating, consent and setting boundaries, social media safety, peer pressure, vaping, drugs, and drinking. Psychologist O'Sullivan emphasizes that girls need to understand their emotions and identify the values and strengths that are important to them. She offers ways to develop self-esteem and explains the importance of relying on family for support. Checklists, exercises, and activities using journaling will help girls manage different scenarios. Proposing that girls build a support system and write a list of people whom they can count on is just one