We all have different names from our breasts, some of us call them our “boobs,” our “tits,” or  as Marisa C. Weiss refers to them in her book, our “girls.” Growing up, we have all heard different names for the strange objects the hang from our chests, but I’m sure that all girls can identify with the confusion of how exactly to deal with our changing bodies during puberty and how to actually take care of our girls.

Well, in Weiss’s book, Taking Care of Your “Girls,” Weiss and her teenage daughter, Isabel Friedman explore the issues that girls go through with their breasts as well as giving helpful advice about learning to like your girls and taking care of them. After reading this book, I wish that it had been around when I first began developing.

Taking Care of Your “Girls,” takes a different approach to explaining something that could’ve easily turned into a dull medical book about a woman’s breasts. However, this book injects life and humor into the subject of medically describing and explaining the phenomena of breasts to teenage girls in a way that they can easily understand. This book takes a frank and simple approach to the subject, and it makes for a very fun and informative read. I found myself laughing at some points of the book, and then in others taking in information that I hadn’t known before. Girls will learn a lot about their bodies by reading this book, but they won’t be bored reading it.

In addition to the two authors of the book, several teenage girls inject their voices into certain chapters and give the book stories that many other teenage girls are able to relate to. These girls have concerns that all other teenage girls have, such as: wishing for larger or smaller breasts, concerns about breast cancer, being teased about the size of their breasts, and scares that they got because of their breasts. The girls are all around the ages of 13-18 and they make the book much more fun to read because I was able to remember going through problems such as these and having the very same concern that they have about their breasts. And because I am still growing up, I suppose that I still do have the very same concerns. And that is what makes this book so great, it was able to keep me reading even though at its core it’s a medical book, it makes learning about your breasts fun because I was able to relate to everything that these girls were going through.

I recommend this book to all teenage girls with concerns and questions that they want answered about their breasts. Even adult women should pick this up, it’s a fun and easy read and you will learn a lot about your body that you may not have known before.