The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self - Tapa dura

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Katty Kay is the anchor of BBC World News America, based in Washington, DC. She is also a frequent contributor to Meet the Press and Morning Joe and a regular guest host for The Diane Rehm Show on NPR. Shes the author, along with Claire Shipman, of two New York Times bestsellers, Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Betterand The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-AssuranceWhat Women Should Know. In addition to her work on womens issues, Katty has covered the Clinton administration sex scandal, four presidential elections, and the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. She was at the Pentagon justtwenty minutes after a hijacked plane flew into the building on 9/11one of her most vivid journalistic memories is of interviewing soldiers still visibly shaking from the attack. Katty grew up all over the Middle East, where her father was posted as a British diplomat. She studied modern languages at Oxford and is a fluent French and Italian speaker with some rusty Japanese. Katty juggles her journalism with raising four children with her husband, a consultant. Visit Katty online at www.theconfidencecode.com.

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Girls can rule the world. All you need is confidence.  

Ever wish you had the guts to try out for that team or play, or finally talk to that grumpy, intimidating teacher, or actually start that animal welfare club you dreamed up? Or maybe your list of scary stuff is totally different. But here's the secret to making it all happen: 

Confidence. It gives you the power to do everything you want. 

Packed with graphic novel strips, fun lists and quizzes, and stories from real girls, this book will reveal the code for confidence'how to make it and how to use it. Soon you'll be a girl of action, tackling risks that lead to big, big adventure and taking on challenges you've never even imagined.