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Puberty for Girls
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The Care and Keeping of You 1Call Number: J 613. SCH
This head-to-toe guide answers your questions. from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and everything in between. With tips, how-tos, and facts from experts, it's the perfect book to help you learn about your body's changes.
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The Care and Keeping of You 2Call Number: J 613.0424 NAT
A compassionate and practical reference for older adolescent girls that shares advice for managing physical and emotional challenges. It covers topics ranging from menstruation and body changes to personal care and peer pressure.
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Head-to-Toe Guide to YouCovering everything from periods, deodorant, bad breath, and smelly feet to hair, braces, acne, and bras to eating right, staying fit, and everything in between. It is complete with tips, quizzes, Q&A's, embarrassing moments, how to's, myth busters, letters, and lots more.
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Girl to GirlCall Number: J 613 BUR
Sarah O'Leary Burningham, a real-life big sister is here to coach preteens through all of life's big moments, from first bras to first periods.
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The Period BookCall Number: J 612. 662 GRA
The Period Book is a reassuring must-read for every girl about to have her period, and every parent wishing to prepare a daughter for this important milestone. The Period Book specifically addresses younger girls, providing clear and sensitive answers to common questions with an additional chapter about body image.
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Your Body, YourselfCall Number: J 612.661 Bel
An updated and revised edition of a girl's guide to puberty and adolescence which explains the changes that take place in the body, such as menstruation and pimples, to changed relationships with parents, friends and boys. Illustrated with diagrams and halftones throughout.
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Ready, Set, Grow!Call Number: J 612.6 Mad
Young girls before the onset of puberty have a curiosity about their soon-to-be changing bodies that needs addressing in a simpler way than for their older sisters at a reading and comprehension level that's just right for them. Discusses changes that are happening, or about to happen, to them, including: the development of breasts, body hair, and body fat; the changes in their reproductive organs, their first period and all the complex feelings surrounding it.
Puberty for Boys
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American Medical Association Boy's Guide to Becoming a TeenCall Number: J 613.0423 Ame
The Boy's Guide to Becoming a Teen is filled with invaluable advice to get you ready for the changes you will experience during puberty. Learn about the physical and emotional changes you can expect from your developing body to your feelings about girls, the importance of eating the right foods and taking care of your body, your reproductive system, relationships and dealing with new feelings.
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Guy StuffCall Number: J 613 NAT
Your body is about to start growing and changing big-time - or maybe this has already begun. This book will provide you with the answers that will help you take care of yourself better - from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to shaving, acne to voice changes, and everything in between. With tips, how-tos, and fact from a real pediatrician.
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On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow!Call Number: J 613.0423 Mad
Lynda Madaras wrote this book especially for younger boys to give them everything they need to know about the new and exciting changes that are happening to their bodies during puberty.
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The Boy's Body BookCall Number: J 613 DUN
Book for pre-teen boys includes everything you need to know about your changing body, texting and social media, friendship and peer pressure, leadership, and so much more!
Birds and Bees (Reproduction)
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It's Not the Stork!Call Number: J 612.6 Har
A book for younger children about their bodies. Young children are curious about almost everything, especially their bodies. And young children are not afraid to ask questions. What makes me a girl? What makes me a boy? Why are some parts of girls' and boys' bodies the same and why are some parts different? How was I made? Where do babies come from? Is it true that a stork brings babies to mommies and daddies?
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It's So Amazing!Call Number: J 612.6 Har
How does a baby begin? What makes a baby female or male? Why are some babies twins? How is a baby adopted? Children sure have lots of questions about reproduction and babies and about sex and sexuality too. IT'S SO AMAZING! provides the fascinating answers with fun, accurate, comic-book style artwork, and a clear, lively text that reflects an elementary-school child's interest in science and how things work.
General Maturation
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What's Happening to Me?Call Number: J PARENT COLL. 612.661 May
What's Happening to Me? has helped parents explain puberty to their children who are experiencing growing pains'. Children and young adults have enjoy the humor and honesty of this book, while learning what really happens to their bodies as they mature.'
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It's Perfectly NormalCall Number: J 612.6 Har
Harris' message is that bodies come in all sizes, shapes, and colors -- and that each variation is 'perfectly normal.'" Providing accurate, unbiased answers to nearly every imaginable question, from conception and puberty to birth control and AIDS, IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL offers young people the information they need to make responsible decisions and to stay healthy.
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Will Puberty Last My Whole Life?Call Number: J 612.6 MET 2018
This flip book for boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 12 has questions asked by girls in one half of the book; flip it over and questions asked by boys are on the other side. Contains honest, informative, and reassuring answers to questions pre-adolescents have about puberty, friends, feelings, sex, pimples, babies, body hair, menstruation, bras, and much more.