title: Old Story, New Twist (Dear Know-It-All)
author:  Rachel Wise 
description: Rachel Wise<B> </B>loves to give advice. When she&#8217;s not editing or writing children&#8217;s books, which she does full-time at a publisher in New York, she&#8217;s reading advice columns in newspapers, magazines, and blogs&#8212;and is always sure <i>her</i> advice would be better! Her dream is to someday have her own talk show, where she could share her wisdom with millions of people at once, but for now she&#8217;s happy to dole out advice in small portions in Dear Know-It-All books.
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  My name is Rachel.
  
  There's a person in the Bible named Rachel. I don't know if my being called
  Rachel has anything to do with her. I doubt it. I've never seen my parents
  reading the Bible. There's a Rachel on Friends. What's up with this season's
  stringy hair? Weird. And there are, at any given time, approxi-mately five
  Rachels in my school. At least two of whom are failing phys ed. Maybe your
  name is Rachel, too. It's a popular name. Lots of girls have it. Even girls
  who can manage to throw a basketball through a hoop from the foul line.
  
  But I'm different from every other Rachel you've ever met. And it's not just
  because the dorkier kids in school think I have a seriously bad attitude.
  Which I do. So what? My being different from every other kid named Rach