When Mary Pipher published Reviving Ophelia in 1994, she made public and immensely popular the image of the early adolescent girl as a girl in crisis. Besieged by accounts of girls as victims of a girl-poisoning culture, of depression, suicide, eating disorders, teacher neglect, poor parenting, and sexual violence, parents sat helplessly on the sidelines wondering what could do to prevent the loss of their early adolescent daughters as they crash and burn in a social and developmental Bermuda (19). Yet hope reared its head for a brief time in the midto late 1990s when a new era of Girl Power tantalized parents into thinking that the Girl in Crisis era was over. Strong, athletic, independent, confident, smart girls were touted as the new feminine ideal. However, in 2002, a series of books published in the popular press, including the four reviewed here, cautioned parents, particularly mothers, that the threat of the Bermuda Triangle still lurks, and Girl Power sports a darker side. Queen Bees & Wannabees and Odd Girl Out are the most widely known of the four books reviewed. During the summer of 2002, the authors of these books were mainstays on morning talk shows, Oprah, and the New York Times Magazine. Both books present an all too familiar story: underneath their nice facade, girls are backbiting, catty, jealous, and duplicitous; will stop at nothing to get what want. According to these authors, contemporary girlhood is a world where girls inflict harm on others, typically girls within their own social network, through words,