The DivaGirl's Guide to Style and Self-Respect

Girls need help. The Diva Girl's Guide to Style and Self-Respect is the answer to her help-me cry. The author conceived this book in the Young Adult/Teen category to show girls they can be cute, popular, smart and successful-without trading on their sexuality or self-worth. This is a girl's hands-on guide to life-advising her on fashion and makeup, getting along with friends and boys, and handling herself in the real world while keeping her cool points. It also addresses more serious issues that affect her self-esteem and her ability to succeed. In The Diva Girl's Guide, Miss Manners meets the Video Vixen for a mutual makeover. This book isn't full of random "shoulds" a girl should memorize. It explains all the "whys," so today's free-thinking girl can make wise decisions. This book introduces etiquette-the rules of acceptable social behavior-in her own language. It convinces her there's nothing stuffy or stupid about knowing how to carry herself. Over many years operating her popular modeling school and self-image workshops, the author has talked to-and listened to-thousands of girls. She knows their interests and struggles; she understands where they're coming from and where they're going. In The Diva Girl's Guide, she doesn't talk down to them, but speaks in a voice that's street-wise. She's that big sister who believes in them and says, "You can make it." Advice includes:

When she reaches the last page of The Diva Girl's Guide, the reader will see herself and her future in a different way. She'll have the important tools she needs to thrive in her wildly complicated, but wonderfully promising life.

Cheryl Ann Wadlington is one of the nation's premiere fashion and beauty journalists and a leading consultant in the field of personal growth. She has reached millions through publications such as Self, Essence, Life & Style, and the Philadelphia Daily News. She founded Evoluer Image Consultants, an award-winning agency in Philadelphia that provides clients with extensive makeovers, personal shopping, and wardrobe management. She also operates the nonprofit organization, The Evoluer House, a personal development program that has graduated more than 700 socio-economically challenged girls. Cheryl majored in advertising at Fashion Institute of Technology and Fashion Merchandising at Bauder Fashion College. She served on the Temple Univ. School of Communications faculty and the Cheyney Univ. Fashion Merchandising program advisory board.

Sonya Beard is a nationally award-winning journalist who has worked for In Style, the international fashion magazine at Time Inc.; as a media consultant for Kulture2Couture, a fashion initiative by the Mayor's Office of London; and as an editor of beauty and fashion books, including Soul Style: Black Women Redefining the Color of Fashion and Black Hair: Art, Style and Culture. She has a B.A. in journalism from Temple University.