You Are Amazing & Brilliant

Help your 9-year-old daughter figure things out for herself.

At nine, everything gets more complicated. Friendship groups shift. The group chat goes quiet. She gets left out and doesn't know why. She's too shy to speak up in class, or she's the only one who can't do something yet.

You can't walk every hallway with her. This book shows her what to do when you're not there.

Twelve short stories about real problems and real problem solving:

• Zoe has watched the same skateboard trick forty times and still can't land it
• Emily hides her bug books before her birthday party, because of something one boy said last year
• Lucy has been eating lunch standing next to the trash cans for four days
• Grace knows the fact in her group's video is wrong. Nobody will listen

Every girl tries the easy thing first. It doesn't work. Then she finds something that does.

No lectures, no speeches from grown-ups. Just resilience, patience, and girls working it out.

After each story: a short page on what she did, and two or three small things your daughter can go and try this week.

An empowering collection for 3rd and 4th grade readers, girls 9 to 12, alone or read aloud at bedtime.