GIRL!

Discover what makes you tick and how to make the most of who your are in this ultimate how-to guide for modern girls.

'Sometimes life feels really complicated. Friendships, school stuff, all the things I care about, big changes happening in the world . . . but then I wonder what I can do, because I'm just one girl.' Ella, 13
Do you sometimes feel like Ella? Then open this book! It has heaps of ideas to help you make and grow things, manage friendships and your emotions, glimpse life from different girls' perspectives, and find out about stuff happening on the other side of the world and in your own backyard.

Young author and blogger Anna Barnes doesn't have all the answers (she wishes!) but like the best big sister, she shares some of her experiences, dreams and funny stories; plus thoughts from girls like you.

Anna Barnes is a writer, playwright and researcher. Her plays and monologues have been performed around Australia and she was the recipient of British Council's Realise Your Dream award in 2007. In 2006 she was awarded the Melbourne Fringe Festival Patrick Alexander Award for excellence in performance writing and in 2011 she was Redstitch Actors Theatre's (Vic) writer-in-residence. She has a regular column about celebrity culture in the bi monthly arts journal The Lifted Brow. In 2011 she moved to Cambodia for three months to volunteer for human rights activist and Nobel Prize nominee politician Mu Sochua MP. She is currently a PhD candidate researching the role of social media in friendships of teenage girls in Melbourne.