A Smart Girl's Guide to Boys: surviving crushes, staying true to yourself, and other (love) stuff is an American Girl publication in the A Smart Girl's Guides series. A revised edition titled A Smart Girl's Guide: Boys was published in 2014. The books was later replaced with the more inclusive A Smart Girl's Guide: Crushes.
Contents[]
Brave New World[]
- Crushes
- A typical day
- Hormones
- Staying normal
Who Likes Who[]
- "Liking" a boy
- Getting to know a boy
- Conversation starters
- What boys want
- Should you tell him you like him?
- What's he thinking?
- How to tell him you like him
- Mistake o' the day
- Getting no for an answer
- Unattainable boys
- Turning down a boy
- Pop quiz: Are you feeling rushed?
- Pop quiz: Are you boy crazy?
- So, what are the rules?
- Talking to parents
Life in the Fishbowl[]
- Boys and friends
- Changing interests
- Rx for an ailing friendship
- Secrets
- How to keep a secret
- Competition and jealousy
- Boy buds
- Boys vs. buds
- Boys online
- Parties and dances
- Popularity
- Teasing and harassment
- Pop quiz: peer pressure
- Going Together
- Twosomes
- Pop quiz: Why pair off?
- Things to do when you go out
- Touching
- Kissing basics
- Trouble-starters
- Solving problems
- Problem boyfriends
- Pop quiz: Problem girlfriends
- Pop quiz: Time to break up?
- How to break up
- Getting dumped
Taking Care of You[]
- Pop quiz: How are you doing?
- Happy ever after?
Book Covers[]
First cover from 2001-2014
Second cover from 2014-present
Trivia[]
- This book won the 2001 National Parenting Publications Honor Award.
- A conversation starter in the book, "I wish that they taught us more about Vikings", was the subject of an Internet meme in 2016 where teenage girls texted boys the sentence and posted the boy's response online.[1]