Good Book: Your Teens and Mine, by Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Ferris

I’ll admit to guessing from the title that this was going to be a book about how to survive teenagers. Wrong. It is a combination memoir and self-help/advice book for teenage girls which covers such things as being afraid, gaining self-confidence, getting along with people, being one of a family, learning to think, going steady, exploring in books, being a citizen, getting the most out of travel, getting married, and more, with points illustrated by events and lessons from the former first lady's life.

Eleanor Roosevelt fans, this has nice snippets from her life, both from her childhood and her adulthood, plus explains how she sees things.

Girls, her advice isn’t all that bad… In my humble opinion, of course.

The copy I’m working from is a hardback published by Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York, in 1961, with 189+ pp.