Sandra Byrd Reviews

Added July 22, 2004

Chatting with Girls Like You

Author: Sandra Byrd
Publisher: Bethany House
Available At: Bookstores Everywhere
Publishing Date: June 2004
Genre: Young Adult: Nonfiction/Religion
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $8.99
ISBN: 0-7642-2754-8
Reviewer: Phillip Tomasso III

Sandra Byrd's latest work, Chatting With Girls Like You, is a relevant and easy read geared toward girls and young ladies. It asks 61 pertinent questions that girls struggle with on a regular basis and then answers them with Biblical truth with practical applications.

The book is broken into six parts: Friends, Myself, Faith, Family, Society and School. Each part is then divided into 10 questions. Some questions revolving around friends ask: Why do my friends fight over who gets to be the leader? How do you know if someone is a true friend?

One question asks for advice when there is a new person in class who is wearing different clothing from everyone else. The answer provided tells a story about a man who walked by the author covered in tattoos, with chopped hair and big black boots. His T-shirt read, Body Piercing Saved My Life. And the author thought, What? The author wrote the man off as weird and scary. When she turned to take a second look at him, she saw the image of Jesus Christ nailed to the cross on the back of the T-shirt.

Other questions revolve around dating, doing well in school, fear around divorce, a parent's job, arguing with siblings, and doing chores. It explains how to handle a situation where a teacher says something that offends your beliefs in class, how to handle being bossy, and how to handle changes inside your body.

Sandra Byrd has written a work that could easily be classified as timeless. She tackles emotional, sensitive and problematic questions head on and then relies on the Bible teachings to offer clearly useful and positively doable solutions. Though geared toward young adults, this book will also prove helpful and insightful to parents who may not realize the worries and fears that weigh significantly on the minds of their children. This book could work as a tool to open up lines of communication between kids and their parents, or strength and reinforce those open lines already in existence.

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