"...From friendship conflicts to the ugly side of social media, learn how to ditch thw drama and kick your inner critic to the curb so you can truly start appreciating yourself."--Back cover.

Confidence is your fuel. It turns your thoughts into action; your dreams into reality. The best way to understand confidence and learn how to harness its secret powers is to see it in action for yourself. So take a look at these thirty stories of real girls. From Bali to Brazil, South Africa to Seattle, Australia to Afghanistan, these girls are pursuing their passions, struggling and stumbling, but along the way figuring out how to build their own...

"Haylah Swinton is an ace best friend, a loving daughter, and an incredibly patient sister to a four-year-old nutcase of a brother. Best of all, she's pretty confident she's mastered making light of every situation--from her mom's new boyfriend to unsolicited remarks on her plus-sized figure. Haylah's learning to embrace all of her curvy parts and, besides, she has a secret: one day, she'll be a stand-up comedian star. So when impossibly cool and...

Charlie Vega is smart, funny, artistic, ambitious. And fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. The world wants Charlie to be thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired, like her best friend Amelia. When Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian, the first worthwhile guy to notice her, everything is perfect until she learns one thing: he asked Amelia out first. Does he really like...

"Effie feels like a ghost. Misunderstood by her classmates and teachers, it's like she just doesn't belong. One day, feeling frustrated and lost, Effie wanders into the woods and discovers something spectacular...a school for ghosts! While she learns all about the amazing things that ghosts can do - like possession, poltergeist-ing, demon magic and more - Effie and her new spirited friends take on the challenge of tracking down and freeing a lost...