Every Girl Tells a Story: A Celebration of Girls Speaking Their Minds - Hardcover

Girl Scouts Of The USA; Jones, Carolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689848722 ISBN 13: 9780689848728

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

Profiles ninety-six American girls through their candid feelings and thoughts about the world in which they live and the things that interest them, enhanced with black-and-white photos throughout.

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Review:

Someday 12-year-old Olivia wants to open an orphanage for Chinese girls. Tamika, age 15, loves writing hip-hop songs. 17-year-old Valerie was afraid of heights until she decided to face her fears on an Outward Bound trip designed to help students stay in school. These girls, and more than 80 others, appear in a big, attractive volume of photo essays put together by documentary photographer Carolyn Jones in collaboration with the Girl Scouts of America. In stunning color and black-and-white photos, Jones creates illuminating portraits of the girls, but allows them to tell their stories with their own words. "I think we should just reach out to people," says Lauren. Erin says, "I've come this far and I can take anything that comes my way." And pithy Briana says, "Think big." The girls articulately and passionately speak their minds about volunteer work, family illness, racism, sports, education, homelessness, divorce, and their own remarkable accomplishments. Readers of all ages--male and female--will be inspired and heartened by this handsome celebration of the women of tomorrow. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author:

Photographer and documentary filmmaker Carolyn Jones has created two other books of narrative photography, Living Proof: Courage in the Face of AIDS and The Family of Women: Voices Across the Generations. She studied photography at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and worked as an assistant to the photographer Hiro before opening her own studio in 1981. Her work has appeared on PBS and in Esquire, Lear's, Interview, Mirabella, and Harper's Bazaar. She lives with her husband and two daughters in New York and Paris.

For almost ninety years, Girl Scouts has provided girls with the tools they need to thrive as adults. With 2.8 million current members -- and more than 45 million alumnae -- Girl Scouts of the USA is the largest organization for girls in America. Girl Scouts of the USA celebrates it ninetieth anniversary in March 2002. Visit Girl Scouts at www.girlscouts.org.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0689848722
• ISBN 13: 9780689848728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96