Author: Lamb, Sharon

Girls are besieged by media images encouraging accessories over academics, sex appeal over sports, fashion over friendship. This winner of the Books for a Better Life Award exposes these stereotypes, gives guidance on talking with girls, and provides tools and information to help them make positive choices. Lamb, author of The Secret Lives of Girls, teaches college-level psychology and practices privately. Brown, author of three books on girls' development, is a professor of education and founder of the nonprofit Hardy Girls Healthy Women. 336 pp.