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The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents and Daughters

10 best books like The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents and Daughters (Lynda Madaras): The Arizona Kid, Daddy's Roommate, Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-deliverance & Assisted Suicide for the Dying, GLBTQ*: The Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens, S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College, The Joy of Gay Sex, Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, Halloween ABC, You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys

The Arizona Kid
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0763626953
A trip out West to work at a racetrack — and a sojourn with a sophisticated gay uncle — bring unexpected discoveries in this quick-witted coming-of-age novel by the author of STONER & SPAZ and MARGAUX WITH AN X.

I was in the West. The Old West. The Wild West! A whole summer in a new place:...
Daddy's Roommate
AuthorMichael Willhoite
ISBN1555831184
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...
Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-deliverance & Assisted Suicide for the Dying
AuthorDerek Humphry
ISBN0385336535
As the legal controversy continues—this newly revised and updated third edition of the landmark bestseller contains new, critically important information for patients, loved ones, and medical personnel.

The original publication of Final Exit stunned the nation by offering people...
GLBTQ*: The Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens
AuthorKelly Huegel
ISBN1575421267
The teen years are full of challenges.

For gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning teens, these challenges can include prejudice, discrimination, rejection, reprisals, insensitive remarks (even among friends and families) and, sometimes, violence.

But being...
S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College
AuthorHeather Corinna
ISBN1600940102
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?...
The Joy of Gay Sex
AuthorCharles Silverstein
ISBN0060012749
For a new century and a new generation of readers comes a fully revised and expanded edition of a classic guide to gay sex, love, and life.

Invaluable as a sex guide, a resource on building self-esteem, and a trusted aid for coming out of the closet, The Joy of Gay Sex covers the ins and outs of gay...
Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
AuthorChris Crutcher
ISBN0060507837

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...
The Drowning of Stephan Jones
AuthorBette Greene
ISBN0440226953
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...
Halloween ABC
AuthorEve Merriam
I usually do reviews from the Epinions website, but since everyone in the Banned Books Club were discussing this book, I just had to review this book! “Halloween ABC” is an ABC book by Eve Merriam along with illustrations by Lane Smith and this book is about various symbols and creatures of Halloween...
You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys
AuthorBetsy Franco
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,...
Detour for Emmy
AuthorMarilyn Reynolds
ISBN1929777051
In the 9th grade, Emmy is an A student, a soccer star, and a lead soprano in the school choir. She won't let her alcoholic mother or her father, long gone, stand in her way. Emmy falls for Art, a junior who is also one of the choir's lead singers. Art is a dream of a boyfriend until Emmy finds that she's pregnant....
The Facts Speak for Themselves
AuthorBrock Cole
ISBN1932425713
How to describe Brock Cole's brilliant new young-adult novel, "The Facts Speak for Themselves?" Here's how the author himself did it in a recent magazine interview: "The Facts [Speak for Themselves?"] starts with a murder and the witness to the murder is a 13-year-old girl. In the initial interrogations,...
Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL
AuthorEsther Drill
ISBN0671041576
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...
I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
AuthorIona Opie
ISBN0763611999
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations...
It's Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
AuthorRobie H. Harris
ISBN0763624330
"Alternately playful and realistic, Emberley's. . . . art reinforces Harris's message that bodies come in all sizes, shapes, and colors -- and that each variation is 'perfectly normal.'" -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)

When young people have questions about sex, real answers can...
King and King
AuthorLinda de Haan
ISBN1582460612
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...
The Boy Who Lost His Face
AuthorLouis Sachar
ISBN0679886222
The classic novel from Newbery Medalist and National Book Award winner Louis Sachar (Holes), with a brand-new cover!
 
David is only trying to be cool when he helps some of the popular kids steal Old Lady Bayfield’s cane. But when the plan backfires, he’s the one the “old witch” curses....
From Diapers to Dating: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children
AuthorDebra W. Haffner
ISBN1557044260
Millions of Americans know Debra Haffner from her appearances on Oprah, Dateline, Good Morning America, 20/20, and other national media such as Time, Newsweek, and USA Today. Whether she is discussing how to help kids deal with the onslaught of sexual messages they see in the media or providing sensible...
Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers
AuthorNancy Amanda Redd
ISBN1592403263
"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,...
Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual and Personal Growth Program for Women
AuthorJulia R. Heiman
ISBN0671761773
Are you shy or self-conscious when it comes to sex? Do you want to learn how to enhance the pleasure you derive from sex? The revised and expanded edition of Becoming Orgasmic provides a program designed to help anyone overcome the myriad obstacles to complete sexual satisfaction.

Whether...
The New Male Sexuality
AuthorBernie Zilbergeld
ISBN0553380427
The New Male Sexuality addresses the most urgent questions of men today--and of the women who love them.  Bernie Zilbergeld reports findings from his twenty years as a psychologist specializing in human sexuality, as well as those other experts in the field, and shares his own and his clients' experiences.  the...
For Yourself: The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality (Revised and Updated)
AuthorLonnie Garfield Barbach
ISBN0451202007
For Yourself offers a step-by-step program developed by an acclaimed sex therapist with years of experience in the field. With an emphasis on clear, factual advice, simple, effective exercises, and a warm, reassuring tone, it helps women discover a new world of fulfillment - for themselves.Includes:

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"What's Happening to Me?" A Guide to Puberty
AuthorPeter Mayle
ISBN0818403128
How da fuck does this have such a high star rating? My ten year old found it on our bookshelf. I don't remember reading it myself but I kept our family's childhood books. My daughter happened to leave it on the coffee table upside down and I noticed it had been created by three dudes in the 70s. Something --...
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