Cover of Smart Girls Guide: Drama, Rumors, & Secrets
Cover of Smart Girls Guide: Drama, Rumors, & Secrets
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Smart Girl's Guide™: Drama, Rumors, & Secrets

By American Girl Feb. 4, 2025

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Smart Girl’s Guide: Drama, Rumors, & Secrets: Staying True to Yourself in Changing Times, written by Nancy Holyoke, American Girl is launching a new and updated version to reflect the world girls live in today. With over 200,000 copies of the original book sold, this new edition will provide trusted advice to girls and parents alike about why drama exists, how it starts, why it keeps going, and how to cool it down.



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What's new

What's new

The new version of Smart Girl’s Guide: Drama, Rumors, & Secrets includes a fresh and updated presentation of bullying, inclusivity, and the digital world through revised text and updated illustrations. Throughout the book, the word “drama” is also given more nuance to ensure that serious subjects like bullying are given the right level of support.

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What's inside the book?

What's inside the book?

The 10th Anniversary Edition of Drama, Rumors, & Secrets: Staying True to Yourself in Changing Times continues to provide practical advice about how to identify hurtful situations and deal with them in healthy and productive ways. It also features tips, quizzes, and advice from real girls so that readers learn to manage drama at school, with friends, and online. Plus, the book includes full-color, inclusive artwork to bring these important topics to life in engaging, relatable ways for today’s girls.

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How it helps

How it helps

Drama, Rumors, & Secrets shows girls how to identify hurtful situations and how to deal with them in constructive and realistic ways. Quizzes help readers understand the “whys” behind other girls’ behavior, and their own. The advice from real girls—taken from letters to American Girl over the years—shows readers that they aren’t alone in dealing with drama. Girls will find a lot of strategies to build positive relationships at school and at home, and parents will find support for some of the biggest struggles of childhood, tweendom, and the teens.


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More to explore

More to explore

Smart Girl’s Guide: Drama, Rumors, & Secrets is just one of many Smart Girl’s Guide™ books from American Girl. From Friendship Troubles to Liking Herself, adults can help the girls in their lives learn how to be kind and to be their best self.


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