Sex: A Book for Teens: An Uncensored Guide to Your Body, Sex, and Safety
10 best books like Sex: A Book for Teens: An Uncensored Guide to Your Body, Sex, and Safety (Nikol Hasler): Castration Celebration, The Rocky Road Trip of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang, Take What You Can Carry, Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines, Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist, Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing, Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens, S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College, Donorboy, The Kayla Chronicles
Author | Jake Wizner |
ISBN | 0375852158 |
Did you know that in imperial China, eunuchs had their testicles, penis and scrotum removed?
Olivia does. She's done the research--after walking in on her dad fooling around with one of his grad students. On her way to an arts summer camp at Yale University, she's decided to write a musical called...
The Rocky Road Trip of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang
Author | Amy Ignatow |
ISBN | 1419701827 |
It’s summertime, and Julie and Lydia are going on a road trip! After all the ups and downs of their first year in junior high, they’re looking forward to seeing the sights and getting some new perspective on their quest for popularity. Papa Dad and Daddy will provide the transportation, and they’ll...
Author | Kevin C. Pyle |
ISBN | 0805082867 |
In 1977 suburban Chicago, Kyle runs wild with his friends and learns to shoplift from the local convenience store. In 1941 Berkeley, the Himitsu family is forced to leave their home for a Japanese-American internment camp, and their teenage son must decide how to deal with his new life. But though...
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
Author | Paul Fleischman |
ISBN | 0763671029 |
Paul Fleischman offers teens an environmental wake-up call and a tool kit for decoding the barrage of conflicting information confronting them.
We're living in an Ah-Ha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never before...
Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist
Author | Dan Savage |
ISBN | 0452278155 |
Welcome to the hot new wave of writing about sex: Savage Love. Columnist Dan Savage has hand-picked over 300 letters from six years worth of "Savage Love," a no-holds-barred syndicated sex-advice column which runs in 16 papers in the United States and Canada, including The Village Voice and the San...
Author | Ann Angel |
ISBN | 0810983494 |
Forty years after her death, Janis Joplin remains among the most compelling and influential figures in rock-and-roll history. Her story—told here with depth and sensitivity by author Ann Angel—is one of a girl who struggled against rules and limitations, yet worked diligently to improve as...
Author | Kathy Belge |
ISBN | 0981973345 |
Teen life is hard enough with all of the pressures kids face, but for teens who are LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender), it’s even harder. When do you decide to come out? To whom? Will your friends accept you? And how on earth do you meet people to date?
Queer is a humorous, engaging,...
Author | Heather Corinna |
ISBN | 1600940102 |
Have you ever wondered... Am I normal? (and what is "normal," anyway?) What's up down there? I really like girls, but I like boys sometimes, too. Am I gay, bisexual, or just messed up? Are we both really ready to have sex? Is it ok if I masturbate? I feel like I can't ever say no to my partner. What's the problem?...
Author | Brendan Halpin |
ISBN | 1400062772 |
Rosalind had two mommies. Now, thanks to a tragic accident involving foodstuffs, she has none. And Sean, the sperm donor responsible for half her DNA (and nothing else), is taking custody. Rosalind finds herself adjusting to a new life that seems both hateful and surreal–she’s an orphan with a...
Author | Sherri Winston |
ISBN | 0316114308 |
Kayla Dean, junior feminist and future journalist, is about the break the story of a lifetime. She is auditioning for the Lady Lions dance team to prove they discriminate against the not-so-well endowed. But when she makes the team, her best friend and fellow feminist, Rosalie, is not happy.
Now...
Sometime around 1815, an enslaved young man named Dave was brought to Edgefield, South Carolina, the center of a pottery-producing area known for the alkaline glazes used on the stoneware. Dave was taught how to turn pots and jars on a pottery wheel by one of his first owners. As Dave's talent flourished,...
Author | Dream Jordan |
ISBN | 0312549970 |
Dream Jordan is back with a follow-up to the acclaimed Hot Girl
Kate is devastated to find herself back in a group home after a peaceful year of living with her loving foster parents, Lynn and Ted. The fantasy life of having the perfect family has come to an abrupt end and Kate's reeling from having...
Author | Rick Detorie |
ISBN | 1606841491 |
A book for the Wimpy Kid who has grown into a Wimpy Teen
Larkin Pace desperately wants a new camcorder. How else is he going to become the next great filmmaker? But his dad won’t give him any money, his sister is determined to make his life miserable, and his nemesis Dalton Cooke is trying to...
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 | Andrew Auseon |
ISBN | 0061139262 |
A novel about freaks, geeks, crushes, and friends—and how sometimes you can be all of them at once.
Charlie is the freak. Gloria is the freak magnet. They're pretty much destined to meet. And when they do, sparks fly . . . for Charlie. Gloria, well, she just thinks he's like every other freak...
Author | Alyson Schafer |
ISBN | 0470837438 |
Within each new mother lives an ideal that like the perfect house and husband is doomed to fall short. The "good mother myth" an ideal that parents create for themselves says psychotherapist and parent coach Alyson Sch fer, is the sort of widely held misconception that ultimately sabotages people's...
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,...
Author | Antonia Carter |
ISBN | 0982702760 |
On her hit television show 'Tiny and Toya', Antonia 'Toya' Carter seems to be living the good life: she has a beautiful home, good friends, and is pursuing her dreams in fashion design. But hers has been a life of peaks and valleys. Abandoned by her parents as a child, she was passed from family member to...
Author | Rick Bowers |
ISBN | 1426305958 |
The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentous periods in American history.
Author Rick Bowers has combed through primary-source materials...
I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure
Author | Rachel Fershleiser |
ISBN | 0061726842 |
From the editors of the international phenomenon and New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning comes a collection of six-word memoirs created by and for teens.
From cancer to creativity, prom dates to promiscuity, and breaking hearts to breaking laws, the memoirs in this collection...
Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of Fifty Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff
Author | James Gulliver Hancock |
ISBN | 1452114560 |
This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating trivia of their lives. Artist James Gulliver Hancock depicts historical icons in quirky annotated portraits surrounded by their associated possessions, baggage, and foibles....
Get Real: What Kind of World are YOU Buying?
Author | Mara Rockliff |
ISBN | 0762437456 |
Can you change the world with your wallet?
You already do.
In this frank, teen-friendly manifesto, Mara Rockliff reveals what you’re really buying when you spend your money on a cell phone, a cheap t-shirt, or fast food—and shows the way to better choices, both for people and the planet.
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The Deviant's Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious
Author | Dennis DiClaudio |
ISBN | 0760366322 |
In tribute to the many splendors of human sexuality, The Deviant's Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious profiles over 40 of the wildest and woolliest sexual proclivities you'll ever find, even on the internet.
The human race is a species of inventors....
Super Pop!: Pop Culture Top Ten Lists to Help You Win at Trivia, Survive in the Wild, and Make It Through the Holidays
Author | Daniel G. Harmon |
ISBN | 1936976366 |
Super-Pop offers a maximum-pleasure, minimum-effort way to become smarter, happier, and more likely to survive your next family function (or a shark attack). This hilarious and wide-ranging guide sorts nearly 500 different bestsellers, blockbusters, and underappreciated gems into quirky top...
Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels ~ and What the Neighbors Thought
Author | Kathleen Krull |
ISBN | 0152008071 |
Not all governments have been run by men. Lives of Extraordinary Women turns the spotlight on women who have wielded power, revealing their feats--and flaws--for all the world to see. Here you'll find twenty of the most influential women in history: queens, warriors, prime ministers, first ladies,...