Publisher : Algonquin Young Readers (February 9, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1643750119
What does a teenage girl dream about in Nigeria or New York? How does she spend her days in Mongolia, the Midwest, and the Middle East?
All around the world, girls are going to school, working, dreaming up big futures—they are soccer players and surfers, ballerinas and chess champions. Yet we know so little about their daily lives. We often hear about challenges and catastrophes in the news, and about exceptional girls who make headlines. But even though the health, education, and success of girls so often determines the future of a community, we don’t know more about what life is like for the ordinary girls, the ones living outside the headlines.
From the Americas to Europe to Africa to Asia to the South Pacific, the thirty teens from twenty-seven countries in Girlhood share their own stories of growing up through diary entries and photographs, and the girls’ stories are put in context with reporting and research that helps us understand the circumstances and communities they live in. This full-color, exuberantly designed volume is a portrait of ordinary girlhood around the world, and of the world, as seen through girls’ eyes.
"Full of pictures and the unique voices of teenage girls in a variety of situations and cultures, this book provides a snapshot of teens’ lives around the world."
—School Library Journal
"These girls' heartfelt, hopeful, and inspiring narratives will resonate with teenage girls everywhere."
—Booklist
"An inviting and appealing collection."
—Kirkus Reviews
MY REVIEW
This is such an amazing book that celebrates the lives of young adults throughout the world. I remember that the only way I knew about what was happening with other young people my age outside of the United States back then was through a pen-pal who would send occasional photos about their lives half across the world from Asia, Europe and South America. This book definitely would have been something I would have loved to read during my teen years.This book was phenomenally put together with lots of visuals and amazing photos of girls' lives throughout the world across the continent of 31 young women and their life experiences, their passions, their interests that definitely spoke to me as a mother of a young teen girl.
I did read this and shared with my daughter who saw this book as eye - opening and more than interesting, that she took the book away from me and kept her nose devoured in this book in an afternoon. That just really warmed my heart. We all long for a sense of connection, and this book really did that for her. I was almost in tears.
Masuma Ahuja is a freelance journalist who did a fantastic job showcasing a variety of young women and highlighting their daily lives through their own voices. The pictures were fantastic as well as how the layout of the book with snippets like a scrapbook which made this fun and easy to read.
I absolutely recommend this book.
About the Author
Masuma Ahuja is a journalist who calls three countries home and reports on people, power, and politics around the world. Her work focuses primarily on women’s and girls’ lives. She was previously a producer at CNN and national digital editor at the Washington Post. She uses words, photos, and emerging media to report and tell stories. Her projects have ranged from long-form stories to sending disposable cameras to women in more than a dozen countries to document their days to crowdsourcing voice mails from Americans about the impact of the 2016 election on their lives. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014.
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