Review buku Odd Girl Speak Out by Rachel Simmons

Words from Publisher
The national bestseller Odd Girl Out exposed a hidden culture of cruelty that had always been quietly endured by American girls. As Rachel Simmons toured the country, these girls found their voices and spoke to her about their pain. They wanted to talk-and they weren't the only ones. Mothers, teachers, counselors, young professional women, even fathers, came to Rachel with heart-wrenching personal stories that could no longer be kept secret.

Here, Rachel creates a safe place for girls to talk, rant, sound off, and find each other. The result is a collection of wonderful accounts of the inner lives of adolescent girls. Candid and disarming, creative and expressive, and always exceptionally self-aware, these poems, songs, confessions, and essays form a journal of American girlhood. They show us how deeply cruelty flows and how strongly these girls want to change.
Odd Girl Out helped girls find their voices; Odd Girl Speaks Out helps them tell their stories.

I'm always the odd girl out
No one talks to me
I try to be friendly and speak out
But I'm invisible, see?

You know, gossip is a natural thing in high school. I'm one of those girls that will do it right in front of you. I'll whisper at my friends and look at you the whole time. Then we'll all cut up laughing. You know we're talking about you.

My best friend and I started being friends with this other girl. But she was fat. It was hard because she always wanted to go down the slide second and she would crush us. We didn't want to tell her she was fat, so we decided to drop her. Her mother called my mother and told her we were being mean. But we just couldn't be friends with her anymore.

Review from me, a reader
Bukunya bagus seperti yang diceritakan diatas. Saya udah lama dengar tentang bully, jealousy, anorexia and any other nasty things. Yang saya kaget, ternyata kelakuan ini dan para korbannya masih sangat muda, mulai dari umur 9 tahun third grader.
Buat saya jadi ada masukkan juga, what's going on in girls world. Buku ini khususnya untuk para orang tua yang ingin mengetahui lebih dalam apa yang terjadi dan tindakan apa yang harus dijalankan. Menurut saya, komunikasi antara orangtua dan anak sangat penting dan musti dibina sejak dini.
Review **** stars out of 5 stars

Tambahan:
Pengarang ini sebelumnya menulis buku Odd Girl Out dan sudah difilmkan di Lifetime Channel. Saya udah nonton, bagus juga filmnya, banyak pelajaran yang bisa diambil.