What Can I Say? : A Kid's Guide to Super-useful Social Skills to Help You Get Along and Express Yourself

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

From the bestselling author of How to Be a Person, this supportive guide to practical social skills guides kids 10 and up through establishing and maintaining meaningful relationships, communicating effectively, and getting along with others.

Middle school is an essential time to learn and practice social skills, including how to get along with others, talk about hard things, be an ally, and a good friend. In What Can I Say?, best-selling and award-winning author Catherine Newman provides supportive guidance and instruction to help kids establish and maintain meaningful relationships, with tips for effectively communicating with friends, teachers, family members, and their communities.

Talking the talk can be tricky, and every page of this useful book provides easy, accessible scripts and guidance on the right thing to say in all kinds of situations.

Learn how to:

• Be inclusive
• Listen thoughtfully
• Give advice
• Stick up for yourself
• Express sympathy
• Talk about pronouns
• Ask someone out 
• Deal with offensive comments
• Respond to bullying
• And be trustworthy

Humorous, graphic-style illustrations that play out familiar scenarios reinforce Newman's friendly, non-judgmental tone and her commitment to helping kids develop the skills to express themselves clearly while showing empathy, care, and generosity towards others.

Catherine Newman is the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Can I Say? and How to Be a Person, as well as the New York Times bestselling novels Sandwich and Wreck, We All Want Impossible Things, two parenting memoirs: Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness, and a middle-grade novel, One Mixed-Up Night. She's also the co-author of Stitch Camp. Newman was the etiquette columnist for Real Simple magazine and the editor of the James Beard Award–winning kids’ cooking magazine ChopChop. A regular contributor to publications including the New York Times, Cup of Jo, and Grown & Flown, Newman lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family. Visit her at catherinenewmanwriter.com and on her Substack, Crone Sandwich.