Iris Cooke

Advice for 8th Grade Girls Iris Cooke

Advice for 8th grade girls comes from author Iris Cooke's extensive and eclectic life experiences. She is a graduate of Yale University with degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and German. Iris is also a self-taught, award-winning artist and art teacher. She was elected to the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, in 1985, and won the New Jersey Bell Best Computer Supplier Award in 1991. Iris had a successful poetry reading circuit in her county in New York, and a successful singing, dancing, and piano career in the same area with both child and adult students. The advice she gives consists of 800 items, lots of fodder for thought and ideas, that range from legal matters, to marriage, to education, to relationships, and more.