Find Your Tribe Books

Thanks to UQP here is your chance to win one of 10 copies of Find Your Tribe (and 9 other things I wish I'd know in High School).

"Insightful... inspiring, uplifting, motivating and really funny!" - Sarah Murdoch

High school handed best-selling author, Rebecca Sparrow, some of her most crushing moments:

No-one invited her to Year 12 formal

Despite playing netball since she was nine, she wasn't even selected for the C-Grade netball team

She was kicked out of 'Advanced Maths' and made to do 'Maths in Society'

And as if all that wasn't bad enough- thanks to her permed hair she spent her teenage years looking like a cross between Jon Bon Jovi and Tootsie.
And yet, Rebecca is one of those rare people who claims to have loved (nearly) every minute of her high school days. The question is- How?

In Find Your Tribe, Rebecca outlines the 10 key lessons she believes make the difference to not just surviving, but enjoying, those years, including- finding your tribe (your true friends), trusting your intuition, learning to be resilient, having a positive body image, coping with the pressures of school work, the importance of giving back to the community, the dangers of binge drinking and the delicate issue of young love-making this irresistible and invaluable reading for every teenage girl.

In 2003, Rebecca was asked to write a letter to a friend's daughter before she started high school- to share some advice on what she thought her friend's daughter needed to know to survive those joyful but often brutal years. The letter was the seed for her latest book, Find Your Tribe (and 9 other things I wish I'd know in high school), a witty, warm and wise roadmap for girls navigating their high school years.

Following the success of her first book, The Girl Most Likely, Rebecca started receiving emails from hundreds of high school girls around the country seeking advice about how to survive their teenage years. As a result, she provides motivational talks to countless numbers of high school girls of topics covered in Find Your Tribe and she has twice spoken at the National Young Leaders Convention.

In researching Find Your Tribe, Rebecca talked to a lot of other people in the public eye about their high school days and consulted the professionals and current issues teenage girls face today. While obviously well-positioned to provide expert advice and the tricky teenage years (Rebecca also accidently set fire to her fake fingernails, tried her hardest to look like Madonna in lace and crucifixes, and arrived home one day with multiple ear piercings) she supplements her advice with a wellspring of additional reliable resources including recommended reading lists and websites.

Highly engaging, relevant and inspiring, with a few memorable photos here and there of the author, Find Your Tribe is the little black book for every teenage girl... and a must read for every parent too.

We've All Been There
"I was always a bit of a loner and definitely not in the cool group" - Kate Noonan, Singer/Composer
"When I was in high school I was bullied over MSN" - Ruby Rose, MTV VJ
"For a long time as a teenager I was driven by what other people thought of me…" - Frances Whiting, Journalist
"I had a teacher at high school- we'll call her Mrs Brown for legal reasons. I told her I wanted to be a comedian and she said, "You are not funny and you are never going to be funny"..." - Will Anderson, Host of The Gruen Transfer
"Some of us are just late bloomers and that's perfectly OK"- Kim Wilkins, author
"Throughout high school I wish I had known the importance of noticing others and allowing their experiences to enrich my own life" Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination
"In high school I had short hair and a face full of pimples" - Juli Grbac, Designer (Winner of Project Runway 2008)
"It's a shame that as women we're so prone to compare ourselves- to images and to each other" - Mia Freedman, Former Editor of Dolly, Cleo and Cosmopolitan magazines
"I was horribly awkward and felt very uncool through school" - Poh Ling Yeow, Artist, Cook and Masterchef 2009 Finalist
"When the world is noisy I close my eyes and breath. I take stock of that gut instinct and get through the chaos" - Tara June Winch, Writer

Rebecca Sparrow is the author of The Girl Mostly Likely, The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay (which was a stage play in 2007) and Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight. She is also a columnist on the Sunday Mail.

Outside of her writing, Rebecca is an ambassador of War Child Australia, an agency dedicated to giving aid to children affected by war, and The Pyjama Foundation, which sends 'Reading Angels' into the homes of foster children.

Find Your Tribe (and 9 other things I wish I'd know in High School)
UQP
Author: Rebecca Sparrow
ISBN: 9780702237720
RRP: $14.95


Interview with Rebecca Sparrow
www.girl.com.au/find-your-tribe.htm