Fountaindale Public Library

Girlhood, teens around the world in their own voices, Masuma Ahuja

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-247)

illustrationsmaps

no index present

Ages ages 12 and up, Algonquin Young ReadersGrades 7-9, Algonquin Young Readers

non fiction

Girlhood

bibliography

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Masuma Ahuja

teens around the world in their own voices

"All around the world, girls are going to school, working, dreaming up big futures--they are soccer players and surfers, ballerinas and chess champions. Yet we know so little about their daily lives. We often hear about challenges and catastrophes in the news, and about exceptional girls who make headlines. But even though the health, education, and success of girls so often determines the future of a community, we don't know more about what life is like for the ordinary girls, the ones living outside the headlines. From the Americas to Europe to Africa to Asia to the South Pacific, the thirty teens from twenty-seven countries in Girlhood share their own stories of growing up through diary entries and photographs, and the girls' stories are put in context with reporting and research that helps us understand the circumstances and communities they live in." -- Amazon.com

adolescent

Teens around the world in their own voices