Thirty-eight different girls give advice on specific issues including sisters, school, passing notes, adults, divorce, babysitting, boys, sport, drugs, and personal appearance.

In the winter of 2001, 29-year-old Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston café that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships: one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate who is interviewing women about their lives for a book called Girls I Know, and the other with 11-year-old Mercedes Bittles, whose parents were killed in the restaurant. Wounded but resilient, all three must deal with loss and grief and the consequences that come when their lives change in unexpected ways.

Abbey Brooks, Gila High freshman-to-be, never thought a hellish day of shopping at the mall with her best friend, Kate, could change her life. But when she orders French fries from the flirtatious Hot Dog on a Stick Chick, she gets more than deep-fried potatoes. Abbey tries to ignore the weird, happy feeling in her gut, but that proves to be as impossible as avoiding the very insistent (and—rumor has it—very lesbian) players on Gila High’s girls’ basketball team. They want freakishly long-legged Abbey to try out, and Abbey doesn’t hate the idea. But Kate made Abbey pinky swear to avoid basketball and to keep away from the you- know-who girls on the team. Sometimes promises can’t be kept. And sometimes girls in uniform are impossible to resist.

Discusses the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty in boys and suggests ways to ease the adjustment to these changes.

Sylvia thought this was going to be the perfect summer. She and her best friend Kristen had been dreaming to win the middle school science fair competetion for years and couldn't wait to put their experiemnet to the test at summer camp together. This is until Indra, the new "it" girl at school, tries to win Kristen's friendship and undermines their plans.

More than forty girls from around the country write on issues ranging from redecorating bedrooms and overcoming shyness to analyzing dreams.

Based on articles from TIME for Kids magazine, activities provide reading comprehension practice in standardized test format.