A Smart Girl's Guide: Manners: The Secrets to Grace, Confidence, and Being Your Best (American Girl® Wellbeing)

I read the book cover to cover before giving it to my daughter. She’s learned a lot and was able to use the knowledge she gained right away.

I like it a lot and will use it with my students in the class I teach.

Great girls book I enjoyed reading 📖 it

After buying and reading the book - I feel that this age range (stated on amazon.com as 8 and up) is off and that the book is better suited to older readers - I would say at least 10 and up, maybe 12. This is because book covers various sensitive subjects including: suicide, sexual predators online and at the mall, and being pressured to go to boy/girl parties and play games like spin the bottle and truth or dare.It's important to note that these sensitive topics are covered in (what I consider to be) a careless way. For example, the suicide issue comes up early in the book under "nosy questions." For me, this was really a problem - my young reader wasn't familiar with the term and had questions about it that I'd rather have waited to deal with. It was so very stupid to include this question because, seriously, under "nosy questions" there were a hundred other topics they could have used there and to bring up suicide in a book rated for 8 and up was way off the mark.Beyond this, I felt that there were a number of other, similar, issues - as listed above. I felt that these topics were not essential to the topic of good manners and did not need to be included here. They would have been better in a book for older kids and also in a book on different topics - maybe they need to write a smart guide to starting to date or a smart guide to staying safe online and at the mall; overall, I just didn't feel they were necessary to learn about good manners or that they were age appropriate for 8 year olds.

I really liked this book for my nine year old daughter. It talks about why manners are important and the language is very accessible and kind. It talks about how manners are not just some rules about right and wrong but they help people know what is expected of one another. And help society function because they are agreed upon customs and expectations of productive adults. It makes manners about being a grown up. Like it makes manners seem like something you want to learn!

An Amazing BookThis book teaches kids manners and more and its not boring to read I would recommend toany parents looking for something to teach there kids manners

I bought four used books ,that’s all show the “good ”, but this is the oldest one, no damage,I think this book should be acceptable.

This book is helpful for young girls to understand how to navigate social situations appropriately. Sometimes it’s hard to find the words to explain it so they will understand this book did just that. It also helped me talk about things I would not have thought to bring up on my own.

This series of books is wonderful and I have bought lots of them for my almost 12 year old daughter. Although they are written for the USA market and some of the words or phrases aren't necessarily what we would use in the UK, the advice is sound, appropriate and there is a strong emphasis on respect and kindness toward yourself, your friends and your parents throughout the series. I cannot recommend them enough. This book covers basic manners, why people tell white lies to avoid hurting others feelings, how to say please and thank you properly and how to take a compliment.

Bought for my daughter and it has bit about committing suicide in it so have taken it back from her. Not suitable for children!

My daughter read this. She is a fluent reader and excels at backchat. There is no improvement in manners whatsoever and apparently all she has learnt is that by “using please and thank you either side of a swear word they makes it polite”She is still rude and this book clearly does meet its claims.

Excellent book for young girls, the language is pitched just right, my granddaughter loves it. Extremely useful book and the price is well balanced.

Very nice book, every girl must have!