The Ultimate Survival Guide to Being a Girl: On Love, Body Image, School, and Making It Through Life
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The Ultimate Survival Guide to Being a Girl: On Love, Body Image, School, and Making It Through Life

The Ultimate Survival Guide to Being a Girl: On Love, Body Image, School, and Making It Through Life

by Christina De Witte

Overview

Addressing the struggles of young girls everywhere, this hilariously relatable comic guide to life provides real advice and encourages a new generation of teen girls to find confidence and embrace individuality.

With friends, love, social media, body image, and more—navigating young adulthood can seem impossible. The Ultimate Survival Guide to Being a Girl provides humorous and highly relatable guidelines for all of the struggles young girls face, presented in author Christina De Witte's signature comic style and told from the point of view of her lovable Instagram and Internet character, Chrostin. A Hyperbole and a Half for the young adult audience, the book includes comics and hands-on advice about serious issues like mental health and self-care, and also deals with questions on every young girl's mind, like "Can you survive on pizza alone?"

Quirky, hilarious, and sincere, The Ultimate Survival Guide to Being a Girlempowers young women to challenge society's unrealistic standards of beauty and embrace their individuality. This is sure to be a favorite for teen girls.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762490431
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Publication date: 08/07/2018
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 246,346
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Christina De Witte began creating comics in art school but was criticized for their "childish" nature. Despite the negative criticism, she continued to pursue her dream of creating webcomics and in time, Chrostin was born. Now, Christina studies Communications and lives with her father, grandfather, brother, and cat in a small city in Belgium.

Table of Contents

Prologue 4

Chapter 1 Mental Stuff 6

Chapter 2 The Beauty Of The Human Booty 27

Chapter 3 On Food Comas And Food Babies 48

Chapter 4 Fashion No-No Or Fashion Guru? 75

Chapter 5 Friends And Family Business 94

Chapter 6 Love Is Beautiful/Sucks 113

Chapter 7 School And Work, Work, Work, Work, Work 134

Chapter 8 The Internet Of Things 163

Chapter 9 Society Vs. Me 202

Chapter 10 United In Diversity 223

Resources and References 237

A (Cheesy) Special Thanks 240

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