Soul Searching: A Girl's Guide to Finding Herself - Hardcover

Stillman, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582703426 ISBN 13: 9781582703428

Publisher: Beyond Words Pub Co, 2012

Synopsis

An updated, indispensable guide to empowerment and self-discovery for teens.

While fashion magazines, television programs, and websites emphasize the superficial and foster insecurities, Sarah Stillman directs teen girls to a healthy place where a strong sense of self and direction take center stage. Originally written when the author was just sixteen, Soul Searching has been fully updated and expanded to address the concerns of today’s teens, bringing girl power to the printed page by offering young women a clear path to self-discovery and empowerment. Through fun quizzes, insightful exercises, and provocative statistics, Stillman guides young women through the complex maze between adolescence and adulthood.

Featuring updated sections on safe cell-phone use, social media, health, and gender, as well as including updated resources throughout, Soul Searching is a must-read for teenage girls.

About this title

Review

"The author s unpretentious yet stellar intelligence endears readers who are likely to consider this book a new BFF. Destined to become a popular item."
Kathryn Diman, Bass Harbor Memorial Library, Bernard, ME
SLJ, March 2012"

"Thoughtful and thought-provoking, Stillman s guide addresses many topics pertinent to contemporary teens. The empowering message of acceptance of self and others permeates this text, providing inquiring readers a starting point for their journey of self-reflection."
" Kirkus Review""

"The author's unpretentious yet stellar intelligence endears readers who are likely to consider this book a new BFF. Destined to become a popular item."
--Kathryn Diman, Bass Harbor Memorial Library, Bernard, ME
SLJ, March 2012

"The book is a powerful example of the wisdom of young adults and the truths they can find in everyday things. This reviewer enjoyed this far more than expected."
--Devin Johnson, Teen Reviewer.
VOYA, December 2011

"Thoughtful and thought-provoking, Stillman's guide addresses many topics pertinent to contemporary teens. The empowering message of acceptance of self and others permeates this text, providing inquiring readers a starting point for their journey of self-reflection."
--Kirkus Review

About the Author

An inspiring example of what a self-confident teen can achieve, Sarah Stillman graduated from Yale with simultaneous Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Anthropology before pursuing her PhD at Oxford.

Active in the international global justice movement, she has worked with migrant factory workers in southern China, refugees in rural Guatemala, and HIV/AIDS patients in Thailand.

In 2008, she was embedded with the 116th Military Police Company in Iraq as a foreign correspondent for Truthdig, following which New York University named her the inaugural recipient of The Reporting Award and her article about it was selected for publication in the New Yorker in 2011. Stillman currently works as a fellow at Yale's Morse College, where she co-teaches a course on the Iraq war with a U.S. Army captain.

Edition details

• Publisher: Beyond Words Pub Co
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1582703426
• ISBN 13: 9781582703428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Gross Susan
• Number of pages: 162