This page is a list of books and resources that can help you, as a parent,
get through these MIDDLE years and realize you are not alone. Many of these
books are available for you to look at in the guidance office.
Please let us know if you have any additions for our list.
Deak, JoAnn, Ph.D., with Barker, Teresa, Girls will be Girls, Raising
Confident and Courageous Daughters, 2002
Gurian, Michael, The Wonder of Girls, Understanding the Hidden Nature of
our Daughters, 2002
Eagle, Carol J., Ph.D., and Colman, Carol, All That She Can Be, Helping
Your Daughter Maintain Her Self-Esteem, 1993
Sessions Stepp, Laura, Our Last Best Shot, Guiding Our Children Through
Early Adolescence, 2002
McCoy, Kathy and Wibbelsman, Charles, Life Happens. A Teenager's Guide to
Friends, Failure, Sexuality, Love, Rejection, Addiction, Peer Pressure,
Families, Loss, Depression, Change, and Other Challenges of Living, 1996
Snyderman, Nancy, MD., Streep, Peg, Girl in the Mirror, Mothers and
Daughters in the Years of Adolescence, 2002
Pipher, Mary MD., Reviving Ophelia, Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls,
1994
Cohen-Sandler, Roni and Silver, Michelle, "I'm not mad, I just hate you!"
A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict, 1999
Giannetti, Charlene C. and Sagarese, Margaret, The Roller-Coaster Years,
Raising Your Child Through the Maddening yet Magic Middle School Years, 1997
Bassoff, Evelyn, Cherishing Our Daughters, How Parents Can Raise Girls to
Become Strong and Loving Women, 1998
Kindlon, Dan, Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in
an Indulgent Age, 2001
Thomson, Michael and O'Neill, Catherine, Best Friends, Worst Enemies:
Understanding the Social Lives of Children, 2001
Rimm, Sylvia, Ph.D., Growing up Too Fast: the Secret World of America�s
Middle Schoolers, Rodale Books, 2005.
Pollack, William, Ph.D., Real Boys, Henry Holt and Company, 1998.
Foxman, Paul, Ph.D., The Worried Child: Recognizing Anxiety in Children
and Helping Them Heal, Hunter House Publishers, 2004.
Levine, Madeline, Ph.D., The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure
and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy
Kids, Harper Collins Publishers, 2006.
Cohen-Sandler, Roni, Ph.D., Stressed-Out Girls: Helping Them Thrive in
the Age of Pressure, Viking Penguin, 2005.
Wiseman, Rosalind, Queen Bees & Wannabes, Three Rivers Press, 2002.
Sax, Leonard, M.D., Ph.D., Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers
Need To Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences, Broadway Books, 2005.
Simmons, Rachel, Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls,
Harcourt Books, 2002.
Twenge, Jean M., Ph.D., Generation Me: Why Today�s Young Americans Are
More Confident, Assertive, Entitled, and More Miserable than Ever Before, Free
Press, 2006.
Clark Pope, Denise, �Doing School�: How We Are Creating a Generation of
Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, Yale University Press,
2001.
