A Smart Girl's Guide: Manners: The Secrets to Grace, Confidence, and Being Your Best

by Nancy Holyoke, Julia Bereciartu (Illustrator)

Overview

Discover the new and improved guide to all things manners! With updated content and fun illustrations, this title is more relevant than ever. As a comprehensive manners guide, girls will learn proper etiquette for everyday events and tricky social situations. This guide is also filled with great advice on everything from eating in fancy restaurants and handling troublemakers at parties to regaining composure after embarrassing accidents. Humorous illustrations, letters from other girls, and entertaining quizzes all make the lessons fun to learn.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609581893
Publisher:	American Girl Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/2013
Series:	American Girl� Wellbeing
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	102,501
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Nancy Holyoke has had two careers. The first was in New York City, working for The New Yorker and a quirky downtown literary magazine called Wigwag. The second began when she moved to Madison, Wisconsin, to be the founding editor of American Girl®. After leading the magazine to two National Magazine Award nominations, she wrote a half-dozen award-winning titles for the American Girl line of books. In recent years, she’s led a team of writers, artists, and photographers creating over a hundred books and online offerings for early readers at the Rowland Reading Foundation. She has a degree from the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Table of Contents

the basics 7

me first?

after you

good impressions

choose your words

respect

let's talk 19

introductions

mr., ms., and more

conversation

Quiz: gossip

Quiz: nosy questions

what Do You Do?: what to say when

you don't know what to say

phone basics

being online

hosts and guest 41

at a friend's

sleepovers

invitations

what Do You Do?: invitations

Quiz: party pitfalls boy-girl parties

gifts 59

presents

what do You Do?: present

thank-yous

what Do You Do?: thank-yous

eating 69

table manners

what Do You Do?: how to handle

trouble at the table

fancy dinners

restaurants

finger food

problem foods

finished

out and about 85

neighborhoods

malls

movies

What Do You Do?: cautious courtesy

good sports

Quiz: the great outdoors

Quiz: faraway lands

stick situations 101

what Do You Do?: embarrassing moments

special occasions 109

family gathering

What Do You Do?: family gatherings

weddings

funerals

protocol

and finally

the checklist