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{{Infobox_book
|name = ''A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image''
|image = File:SmartGirlsGuideBodyImage.jpg
|imagewidth = 300px
|caption = The cover of ''A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image''
|published = 2022 
|author = Mel Hammond
|illustrator = [[Maike Plenzke]]
|isbn = 1683371909
}}
'''''A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image:''' How to Love Yourself, Live Life to the Fullest, and Celebrate All Kinds of Bodies'' is an [[List of American Girl Published Books|American Girl publication]] in the A [[Smart Girl's Guides]] series, focused on body positivity at all sizes, false images and beauty standards, disability rights, gender diversity and expression, body consent, and self esteem. 

==Contents==

===Body Image Basics===

* The Body Blues
* Quiz: Body Image Check-Up
* Loving Your Body Right Now
* Body Bliss

===Your Body===

* Shape and Size
* The Skin You're In
* Awesome and Able
* Growing and Flowing
* Gender Joy
* Body Image in Distress
*The One and Only You

===Love Your Body===

* Eat
* Diet? Don't Try It!
* Step Away From the Scale
* Winner Winner, Family Dinner
* Move It!
* Month of Movement Challenge
* You're the Boss of Your Body
* Dress to Express 
* Makeup and More
* Bounce Back
* Quick Fixes

===The Background on Beauty===

* What's Beauty?
* Picture-Perfect or Phony-Baloney?
* The Dark Side of the Beauty Standard
* Media Makeover
* Be-YOU-tiful
* Follow the Money
* Bogus Beauty Bingo

===Celebrate All Bodies===

* Put a Stop to Body Talk 
* Health Myths
* Body Bullying
* Making Space for Everyone
* Vision Board
* Changing the World Every Day
* Resources 

==Resources==

Listed resources in the book include:

* The Trevor Project and Human Rights Campaign 
* GLSEN
* National Eating Disorders Association
* StopBullying.gov
* We Need Diverse Books
* Americans with Disabilities Act and Disability Rights Advocates
* ''[[A Smart Girl's Guide: Race and Inclusion]]''

==Real Girl Runway==

Through the book, five girls are spotlighted through the ''Real Girl Runway'': 

:* Zoe Terry of [https://zoesdolls.com/ Zoe's Dolls], a organization to promote black and brown dolls. 
:* Ivy Golob, a Deaf, trans, Jewish girl whose first language is American Sign Language ([https://www.instagram.com/ivyalonasjourney/ Instagram]).
:* Kinley Agent, a plus-sized hip-hop dancer with asthma ([https://www.instagram.com/kinley_on_that_beat/ Instagram]). 
:* Fatima Abdelrahman, a Muslim squash athlete who was confronted in an airport and pressured to remove her headscarf in public, leading to changes in airline policy after her family's public complaints.<ref>[https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/12-year-old-Squash-player-forced-to-remove-hijab-14457011.php Air Canada workers forced athlete, 12, to remove hijab at SFO]</ref>
:* [https://jordanreeves.com/ Jordan Reeves], a girl with limb difference who designed a purple glitter-shooting prosthetic called The Glitter Blaster<ref>''[https://amputeestore.com/blogs/amputee-life/glitter-girl-jordan-reeves-builds-prosthetic-arm-shoots-glitter "Glitter Girl": Young Inventor Builds Prosthetic Arm That Shoots Glitter]''</ref> and founder of the organization [https://www.bornjustright.org/ Born Just Right] with her mother

The girls are then shown together in an illustrated image on the last page before Resources. 

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==References==
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[[Category:Books]]
[[Category:A Smart Girl's Guides]]
[[Category:Items Released in 2022]]

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