It's Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
10 best books like It's Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (Robie H. Harris): Daddy's Roommate, Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook, Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys, The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents and Daughters, Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL, King and King, With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote, What's the Big Secret?: Talking about Sex with Girls and Boys
| Author | Michael Willhoite |
| ISBN | 1555831184 |
this book is FAIL.
well, let me clarify: this part is GREAT: "Mom says Daddy and Frank are gay./At first I didn't know what that meant. So she explained it./Being gay is just one more kind of love./ And love is the best kind of happiness." Lovely, appropriate, true.
but the illustrations...
Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook
| Author | Peter Blood |
| ISBN | 1881322149 |
Lyrics and guitar chords for nearly 1,200 songs are arranged in a compact, easy-to-use format in this comprehensive collection. Folk revival favorites; Broadway show tunes; Beatles' songs; hymns, spirituals, and gospel standards; songs about peace, freedom, labor, and the environment are among...
| Author | Chris Crutcher |
| ISBN | 0060507837 |
This short story collection serves as my introduction to Chris Crutcher as an author.
These stories are easy to read despite dealing with social situations and moral dilemmas: self-esteem, reaction to death and dying, prejudice and discrimination, or family relationships.
I...
| Author | Bette Greene |
| ISBN | 0440226953 |
Hate. It's the farthest feeling from sixteen-year-old Carla Wayland's mind. She can't believe people would persecute others just because they are different. But she isn't about to worry about the injustice surrounding her because she's in love with handsome and popular Andy Harris. Although raised...
Teenage boys speak out—without the filter of adult sensibility—in a compelling collection of poetry and prose.
In a powerful collection of more than seventy uncensored poems and essays, more than fifty teenage boys from across the country explore their many-layered concerns: identity,...
| Author | Lynda Madaras |
| ISBN | 1557044449 |
I checked this out from the library when I was looking for a book to give my almost-8 yr.-old. I found the content a little bit too detailed in areas I didn't feel she was ready for yet (birth control, for instance - yikes!! I'm not ready for that!) And it had some anatomical illustrations of boys and girls...
| Author | Esther Drill |
| ISBN | 0671041576 |
Deal With It! offers a whole new approach for dealing with your life as a girl. It's a resource to help you learn about, laugh about, and figure out the stuff you go through on your way through life. It won't tell you what to do, because you'll need to decide that for yourself. But whether you're wondering...
| Author | Linda de Haan |
| ISBN | 1582460612 |
Once there lived a lovelorn prince whose mother decreed that he must marry by the end of the summer. So began the search to find the prince's perfect match and lo and behold... his name was Lee. You are cordially invited to join the merriest, most unexpected wedding of the year. King & King is a contemporary...
| Author | Ann Bausum |
| ISBN | 0792276477 |
To hear her tell it, Ann Bausum was inspired to write this book because of a childhood introduction to Alice Paul ("it's her strong gaze, more than anything else, that I've remembered . . . Plenty of flame remained in her eyes.") In With Courage and Cloth, Bausum pays tribute to the sacrifices and struggles...
| Author | Laurene Krasny Brown |
| ISBN | 0316101834 |
Simple, straightforward, and age-appropriate answers to kids' most common questions about sex, the human body, reproduction, and development.Are boys and girls different on the inside? How do you tell girls and boys apart? Do girls and boys have the same feelings? Is sex a dirty word? Where do babies...
Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers
| Author | Nancy Amanda Redd |
| ISBN | 1592403263 |
"You’d think a Miss America swimsuit winner would feel completely confident about her body, right? Not always! So I decided to write the book I wish I’d had as a teen and in college—an honest, funny, practical, medically accurate, totally reassuring guide to how women’s bodies actually look,...
Neopagan Rites: A Guide to Creating Public Rituals That Work
| Author | Isaac Bonewits |
| ISBN | 0738711993 |
Practical and engaging, this guide represents the best practices from Isaac Bonewits' over thirty-five years of experience creating, attending, and leading public ceremonies as a Neopagan priest and magician. Ideal for Earth-centered spiritual movements and other liberal religious traditions,...
| Author | Karl Weber |
| ISBN | 1586489275 |
Each book includes a $15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need. The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have 123 million high-skill...
| Author | Barry Lopez |
| ISBN | 0679740996 |
Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true assessment...
| Author | L.N. Smith |
| ISBN | 0965331636 |
L.N. Smith is a brilliant mind with a wise talent for writing. I wish that society had more folks that think like he does. Smith's wonderful ability to take something as popular as almost sacred to Americana as Disney, and apply his insightful observations about life and where were are headed as well as...
Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality
| Author | John Shelby Spong |
| ISBN | 0060675071 |
Is celibacy the only moral alternative to marriage? Should the widowed be allowed to form intimate relationships without remarrying? Should the church receive homosexuals into its community and support committed gay and lesbian relationships? Should congregations publicly and liturgically...
Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist
| Author | John H. Sibley |
| ISBN | 1979452342 |
John Sibley was a homeless artist living in the streets of Chicago for six months. His aim in his philosophical essays in "Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist" is to shed light on and humanize a growing global problem. "Being and Homelessness" focuses upon the extreme anxiety and...
'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It
| Author | Colin Flaherty |
| ISBN | 1938067061 |
Ferguson might be the worst, but it is not the first. Ferguson is just the latest of hundreds of examples of black mob violence around the country.
White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It was written for the deniers: Reporters and public officials...
Your Mythic Journey: Finding Meaning in Your Life Through Writing and Storytelling
| Author | Sam Keen |
| ISBN | 0874775434 |
We all tell stories about who we are, where we come from, and where we are going. These personal myths in turn shape who we become and what we believe—as individuals, families, and nations. This book offers readers the tools to detect the story line in their own lives and to write and tell it to others,...
Bullheaded Black Remembers Alexander: The Story of Alexander the Great's Invasion of the Middle East
| Author | J.L. Taylor |
| ISBN | 1412032865 |
As a life-long student of history, anything that covers the subject will grab my attention. As a man with attention deficit disorder, the litmus test of quality for the historical work is established when once I am grabbed, will I allow it to take hold for more than a nano-second? This wonderful book has...
Bad Cop: New York's Least Likely Police Officer Tells All
A funny and revealing memoir of one man's journey into and out of the New York City police department.
In 2001, Paul Bacon was a typical young New Y orker: hip, liberal, overeducated, a little aimless. But then 9/11 happened. Hearing a call to duty—and lacking any better employment options—he...
When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 1893732606 |
This first collection of Thomas Merton's nature writings serves as a primer on eco-spirituality. Thomas Merton: millions know him as the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, the international bestseller and a modern spiritual classic. Now, in the first collection of his writings on nature, Merton...
Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying: 40 Years of High Seas Travels and Lowbrow Tales
| Author | Robert Jacoby |
| ISBN | 0615434894 |
Based on nearly 40 hours of interviews, Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying is the memoir of a 61-year-old, life-long merchant seaman re-counting his fantastic, hilarious, and politically incorrect exploits. He's a sailor-scholar and an individualist anarchist; he's read Voltaire and...
