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Book Review of Be True to Yourself: A Daily Guide for Teenage Girls

Be True to Yourself: A Daily Guide for Teenage Girls
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This book is so bad I won't even be passing it along.
The author says in the intro this is the advice she wishes she had a little sister to pass it along to. Like how to sneak out and not get caught. My daughter doesn't need that kind of big sister.

This is a 20 yr old trying to justify and validate the selfish, self-centered behavior of her teens. Paraphrased: Do what you want, you deserve to be happy. If others don't like it, they just don't value your individuality.

She does, seemingly by pure chance, happen to give a nugget or two of decent advice. But buried amid the 300+ horrid bits of "wisdom", I would shred this book just to ensure it doesn't fall into my daughter's hands and make her a narcissistic copy of the author.