Based on his observations during recess, class, and his own personal experience, the nine-year-old author offers tips on everything from overcoming shyness to getting a girl to like you back. - (Baker & Taylor)
Based on his sharp observations during recess, class, and his own personal experience, the nine-year-old author offers tips on everything from overcoming shyness to getting a girl to like you back. - (Baker & Taylor)
Are you smart enough to take over a girl's heart?
Leave it to a nine-year-old to get down to the basics about how to win victory with a girl. How to talk to girls is for boys of all ages—from eight to eighty—and the girls they like. So read this book and then you're ready. Good luck!
Tips:
Comb your hair and don't wear sweats
Control your hyperness (cut down on the sugar if you have to)
Don't act desperate
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HARPERCOLL)
How to Talk to Girls
By Alec Greven
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Copyright © 2008
Alec Greven
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780061709999
Chapter One
The Facts of Life
Sometimes, you get a girl to like you, then she ditches you.
Life is hard, move on!
Tip: About 73 percent of regular girls ditch boys; 98 percent of pretty girls ditch boys.
Or sometimes it just doesn't work out.
I had a crush on a girl in preschool.
Then my family had to move, so I had to let her wash out of my mind.
You also have to be aware that girls win most of the arguments and have most of the power. If you know that now, things might be easier.
Finally, if you try for too many girls, you will have jealousy issues and might end up with nobody. It is really best to go for just one.
If you do get a girl to like you, that is victory.
Winning victory is a dream for most boys, but it is very rare.
What does it take to win victory?
Read on and find out!
Continues...
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by Alec Greven
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Booklist Reviews
"Some books just make your teeth ache. Books written by nine-year-olds about how to get it on with girls fall into that category. According to the P.R. story, this book began as a pamphlet author Greven sold at his school book fair. No word on how long the pamphlet was, but here it has grown to 48 pages. This couldn t have been easy. There are only seven short chapters. Still, between the remembrances ("I had a crush on a girl in preschool. Then my family had to move, so I had to let her wash out of my mind"), the observations ("pretty girls . . . have the big earrings"), and the ruminations ("if you are the smartest kid in the class, you are like a magnet and the girls are the metal"), the pages do fill. Of course, half of each page is taken up with simple ink illustrations that seem to be going for a Charlie Brown–style look. Much of the book, of course, contains advice, time-honored in many cases, such as "Go for the talkative girl if you are shy" or "Don t be a show-off. Most girls don t like show-offs." How true. No doubt quite a few preteens, feeling the first inklings of attraction to girls (and attracted to this book by all the hoopla), will want to hear what one of their own has to say. Still, it s hard not be cynical about a self-help book from a nine-year-old. Who among us, after all, is above a little jealousy when we hear that the film rights to a little kid s book have been optioned for six figures? Actually, my first boyfriend moved away, too. But I was in college." Copyright 2008 Booklist Reviews.