'Girls are cool. But we are not always cool to each other.'

Being a teenager is hard work, but being a teenage girl is even harder!And to top it all off, instead of supporting each other through thesechallenging years, girls tend to cut each other down. Far from beingmade of sugar and spice, teenage girls are instead powered by amultitude of body changing, mind bending hormones, making the complexterrain of social relationships harder than ever to navigate. Survivingthe gossip, note passing, taunting and teasing of school is a challengefor any teen, but without doubt, it is girls who specialise in the artof being "mean".

Why do we behave this way? And what can we do to break these painfulcycles of envy and passive-aggression? Packed with no-nonsenseexplanations and positive advice for both victims and "mean" girls,Bonnie Burton outlines how we can isolate the "mean" from the teen andfind permanent and positive solutions to female bullying.