Deal With It! offers a whole new approach for dealing with your life as a girl. It's a resource to help you learn about, laugh about, and figure out the stuff you go through on your way through life. It won't tell you what to do, because you'll need to decide that for yourself. But whether you're wondering about your body, your feelings or your changing relationships with the people around you, this book provides accurate information and outlines your options. Hilarious illustrations point out the humor in even the sorriest situations. And with hundreds of excerpts from real-girl conversations on the gURL.com website, you can see for real that whatever you're going through, you're not alone. This book is for anyone who needs to know what it means to be a girl -- from those on the edge of their teens to those who are way past them but still reeling from the trauma.
This is a nonfiction book written by contributors of the website gurl.com. I have not visited the website in years, I have no idea if it is still up and running or not, but I hope it is. This website was a safe haven for me as a teen. The book Deal With It! was what I always called my bible. I referred to it for anything. It was split up in sections about different things from dealing with your body, to your friends, to budgetting money. There is something in there to help all teen girls. What I loved about the book is that there were resources listed at the end of every section with helpful books, phone numbers for organizations, and websites. Reading this book always gave me a sense of comfort. I knew I was not the only one feeling the way that I was feeling because when I flipped through the pages of the book there was proof that my issues were popular enough to be written about. Also, this book was very accepting, in the sections on love, it explained about LGBT teens and it talked about acceptance. I have a good friend who is falls under one of those categories and I was glad to finally see the issue being brought to light in a postive manner. I don't know if the book is still published, but I hope that it is. I lost my very battered, beat up copy years ago and I really wanted to hang onto it to pass to my daughter when she is a teenager. Times may change, but the issues stay the same and I know that she would find help in this book. I may have to look into getting a new copy. If you are a teen girl, or have a teen girl in your life- daughter, sister, cousin, niece, neightbor- I recommend going to the book store and picking up this book. It helped me so much as a teen and I know it can help many other girls out there.
