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Suggested Readings for Parents of Girls

1. Things Will Be Different for My Daughter: A Practical Guide to Building Her Self-Esteem and Self-Reliance Things Will Be Different for my Daughter: A Practical Guide to Building Her Self-Esteem and Self-Reliance
   by Mindy Bingham, Sandy Stryker, and Susan Allstetter Neufeldt
2. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
   by Mary Pipher
3. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence
   by Rosalind Wiseman
4. Mean Girls: Facing Your Beauty Turned Beast Mean Girls: Facing Your Beauty Turned Beast
   by Hayley DiMarco
5. Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences Why Gender Matters
   by Leonard Sax
6. Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents Boys and Girls Learn Differently
   by Michael Gurion
7. Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters
   by JoAnn Deak
8. The Mother-Daughter Book Club Rev Ed.: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Reading The Mother-Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Learning
   by Shireen Dodson
9. Some books your daughters might enjoy (the first four are related to heroines in folk tales): Tallerhood and Other Tales by Ethel Johnston Phelps, Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls by Jane Yolen, Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World by Kathleen Ragan, Ella's Big Chance by Shirley Hughes, Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventors by Catherine Thimmesh, How High Can We Climb? The Story of Women Explorers by Jeannine Atkins

Suggested Readings for Parents of Boys

1. Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: A Guide for Teachers and Parents Boys and Girls Learn Differently
   by Michael Gurion
2. Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences Why Gender Matters
   by Leonard Sax
3. Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
   by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
4. Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Raising Sons Speaking of Boys
   by Michael Thompson
5. www.csbl.org – The Center for the Study of Boys' Lives
6. Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from Myths of Boyhood
   by William Pollack
7. The Courage to Raise Good Men The Courage to Raise Good Men
   by Olga Silverstein and Beth Rashbaum
8. The Good Son : Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men
   by Michael Gurian
9. What Stories Does My Son Need? What Stories Does My Son Need
   by Michael Gurian
10. Real Boys' Voices Real Boys' Voices by William Pollack
11. Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different - And How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men Raising Boys – Why Boys are Different
    by Steve Biddulph
12. www.guysread.com

Books that boys might enjoy: Guys Write for Guys Read, edited by Jon Scieszka, The Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups by David Wisniewski

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