With over 600 pages and heaps of cartoons, Girl Stuff has everything girls need to know about: friends, body changes, shopping, clothes, make-up, pimples (arrghh), sizes, hair, earning money, guys, embarrassment, what to eat, moods, smoking, why diets suck, handling love and heartbreak, exercise, school stress, sex, beating bullies and mean girls, drugs, drinking, how to find new friends, cheering up, how to get on with your family, and confidence.

Each chapter includes facts, hints, inspiring lists, hundreds of quotes from real girls, and details for over 350 websites, books and other information. Written in extensive consultation with more than 70 medical, and practical experts, Girl Stuff provides the most up-to-date and useful information possible.

Accolades

CBC Book of the Year 2008 - Honour Book Information Book
Australian Booksellers Association 2008 - Winner Book of the Year
Australian Publishers Association 2008 - Winner Best Design Children's NF
Australian Book Industry Awards 2008 - Winner Non-Fiction

About the Author

Kaz Cooke is an Australian author and cartoonist, and former teenage girl. She has a background in journalism and flibbertigibbeting. She is often a columnist; sometimes a radio broadcaster; the best-selling author of Up the Duff, Kidwrangling, The Little Book of Stress and Real Gorgeous; and the winner of the 2002 UK Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year, Living with Crazy Buttocks. Her books have been translated into many languages: in Latvian she is Keza Kuka and in Czech she is Kaz Cookeova. She has too many handbags and never knows where her mobile phone is.