The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls

Rachel Simmons

The expose that started everyone talking about “girl bullying” and girl’s aggression. When author, Rachel Simmons, looked for answers to why she was bullied as a young girl, all she found was research on then profoundly different, male bullying. Streams of women came forward telling their tales of psychological and emotional torment usually from the girls they considered their friends. This book opens the world of female bullying and includes real-life stories, important discoveries and talks about pressing social issues such as popularity and cliques; bullying across social and racial lines; hidden jealousies, competition, and emotional abuse among close friends, and school attitudes toward girl bullying.

“Peels away the smiley surfaces of adolescent female society to expose...the vicious psychological warfare waged every day in the halls of our schools.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

Softcover, 5 1/4 x 8, 301 pages, Grades 5-12