Book Description
A guide for pre-adolescent girls to the changes that puberty brings to their bodies, including information about menstruation.
Author : Mavis Jukes
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 1998-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0679890270
A guide for pre-adolescent girls to the changes that puberty brings to their bodies, including information about menstruation.
Author : Kelli Dunham
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Adolescence
ISBN : 9780606320702
Discusses the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty in boys and suggests ways to ease the adjustment to these changes.
Author : Andrea Elliott
Publisher : Random House
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812986962
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott “From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths.”—Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Library Journal In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City’s homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care. Out on the street, Dasani becomes a fierce fighter “to protect those who I love.” When she finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family, and yourself? A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott’s Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl. Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize • Finalist for the Bernstein Award and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
Author : Karen Gravelle
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 161963662X
This bestselling, essential illustrated guidebook for adolescent girls is a trusty friend that can help girls feel confident about this new phase of their lives. What is my period exactly? Do I need to see a doctor? What does it feel like to wear a pad? What if I get my period at school? Karen Gravelle and her fifteen-year-old niece, Jennifer Gravelle, have written a down-to-earth and practical book that answers any questions you might have about your period, from what it is and what it feels like, to how to choose pads and tampons, to how to talk to your parents about it. The Period Book will help guide you through all the physical, emotional, and social changes that come with your period, as well as related issues like dealing with pimples, mood swings, and new expectations from friends and family. Debbie Palen's funny and sympathetic cartoons ease the confusion and exasperation you might feel, and celebrate the new sense of power and maturity that your period can bring.
Author : Rebecca C. Hains
Publisher : Mediated Youth
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9781433111389
Growing Up With Girl Power considers how real girls who grew up with girl power interpreted its messages about empowerment, girlhood, strength, femininity, race, and more, and suggests that for young girls, commercialized girl power had real strengths and limitations - sometimes in fascinating, unexpected ways.
Author : Jennifer Storm
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592858171
A riveting memoir of what happens to a teenage girl whose life is awash in alcohol, drugs, and the trauma of rape. Jennifer Storm's Blackout Girl is a can't-tear-yourself-away look at teenage addiction and redemption. At age six, Jennifer Storm was stealing sips of her mother's cocktails. By age 13, she was binge drinking and well on her way to regular cocaine and LSD use. Her young life was awash in alcohol, drugs, and the trauma of rape. She anesthetized herself to many of the harsh realities of her young life--including her own misunderstandings about her sexual orientation--, which made her even more vulnerable to victimization. Blackout Girl is Storm's tender and gritty memoir, revealing the depths of her addiction and her eventual path to a life of accomplishment and joy.
Author : Susan J. Douglas
Publisher : Crown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 1995-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812925300
Media critic Douglas deconstructs the ambiguous messages sent to American women via TV programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reporting over the last 40 years, and fathoms their influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries. Photos.
Author : Adele Faber
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 1999-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0380811960
You Can Stop Fighting With Your Chidren! Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know–how you need to be more effective with your children and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down–to–earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. Their methods of communication, illustrated with delightful cartoons showing the skills in action, offer innovative ways to solve common problems.
Author : Rachel Kushner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982157690
A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
Author : Valorie Lee Schaefer
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Girls
ISBN : 9780606315753
For use in schools and libraries only. An updated edition of a best-selling reference for younger adolescents shares practical, expert advice on topics ranging from hair care and healthy eating to menstruation and acne.