Sex Education/Sexuality > Pre-Teens and Adolescents
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You-ology
A Puberty Guide for EVERY Body From the most trusted name in child health, American Academy of Pediatrics, comes a new, inclusive approach to learning about puberty! A new kind of puberty guide, You-ology embraces an inclusive approach that normalizes puberty for all kids. Traditional puberty education only contributes to a sense of isolation and often does not include all kids’ experience of puberty and leaves kids with questions about how puberty will affect their friends and classmates. For curious kids and parents looking to talk about puberty in an inclusive way, You-ology offers fact-based, age-appropriate, and body positive information about the physical, social, and emotional changes ahead for all kids. Colorful illustrations keep the tone upbeat and engaging, while short stories featuring a cast of diverse characters add relatability and humor. Helping kids understand what EVERY body goes through in puberty, grows greater compassion and empathy for all.
$16.95
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You Know, Sex (Puberty Ages 10-14)
Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things A completely new approach to learning about puberty, sex, and gender for kids 10+. Here is the much-anticipated third book in the trilogy that started with the award-winning What Makes a Baby and Sex Is a Funny Word. In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty — hormones, reproduction, and development — but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being.
$39.95
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What's The Big Secret? (Sex Ed)
Talking about Sex with Girls and Boys Simple, straightforward, and age-appropriate answers to kids' most common questions about sex, the human body, reproduction, and development. With characteristic sensitivity and humor, the talented team who created Dinosaurs Divorce and When Dinosaurs Die presents helpful basic information, including answers to tough questions for preschoolers, early elementary students, and their teachers and caregivers.
$12.99
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What's Happening To My Body? Book for Boys 3rd Ed
This book features detailed coverage, in age-appropriate language, of a boy's body's changing size and shape, the growth spurt, the reproductive organs, voice changes, romantic and sexual feelings, puberty in the opposite sex, and much more. Includes a comprehensive resource section and line drawings. For ages 10 and up.
$21.99
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What's Happening To My Body? Book for Girls (3rd Ed)
Discusses the changes that take place in a girl's body during puberty, including information on the body's changing size and shape, pubic hair, breasts, reproductive organs, the menstrual cycle, and puberty in boys.
$21.99
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What's Happening To Me? A Guide to Puberty
This clever, informational book discusses the mental and physical changes taking place during puberty. It's funny and interesting and the illustrations are fabulous. It discusses everything from acne to erections in a matter-of-fact way that clears up confusion and embarrassment and adds lightness and levity to an often difficult-to-discuss topic.
$17.50
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What Does Consent Really Mean
In this vibrant comic book, the serious issue of sexual consent is explored by depicting conversations of teenagers aged thirteen to eighteen, showing their personal feelings on the subject. The comic book story is accompanied by sexual health resources for students, teachers, and health-education practitioners. Ages 13-19
$38.95
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Welcome to Consent (teen)
How to Say No, When to Say Yes, and How to Be the Boss of Your Body This guide breaks down myriad situations involving consent and bodily autonomy, including navigating new or changing feelings, recognizing power imbalances, staying safe in online spaces, and keeping relationships mutually comfortable. Through relatable illustrations, clear explanations, and real-life examples, readers will learn how to actively listen and observe, set boundaries, and speak up for themselves and others.
$12.99
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We Need To Talk About Vaginas
There are lots of reasons why we don’t talk about vaginas. It can be embarrassing to discuss your vagina with your parents, we can feel confused about the changes that are happening to our bodies, and nobody else talks about vaginas—so why should you? But KNOWLEDGE IS POWER people! The more we know about our vaginas and vulvas the better equipped we will be to deal with our bodies in the future. In this beautifully illustrated book Dr. Allison K. Rodgers simply explains everything from why we have periods to sex and consent in the age of social media. You’ll learn the correct names for everything, realize pubic hair is TOTALLY NORMAL, and discover the magical self-cleaning properties of vaginas.
$19.99
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The Girls' Guide to Sex Education
Over 100 Honest Answers to Urgent Questions about Puberty, Relationships, and Growing Up Real talk about real life for girls ages 10 to 13. Award-winning youth sex education expert Michelle Hope offers down-to-earth, supportive sex education guidance as she addresses the most pressing questions that girls have about sex, puberty, and relationships — directly and without judgment. Honest, straightforward, and understanding, The Girls' Guide to Sex Education includes: A "For Parents" foreword that teaches you how to approach sex education with your child using this book; a practical Q&A format; answers to real-life sex education questions from girls ages 10 to 13. The Girls' Guide to Sex Education will arm girls with a complete understanding of their body and empower them to make informed, healthy decisions.
$16.50
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Sex, Puberty & All That Stuff: A Guide to Growing Up
This friendly book talks to teens about sex. Separate chapters titled Boy Stuff and Girl Stuff describe body changes that occur during puberty, with frank and open discussions about male and female genitals, how they feel, and how they function. Chapters that follow discuss typical teen problems, as well as feelings that come with sexual development, and offer tips on making it through the teen years. Learn how to deal with crushes, controlling parents, pimples, kissing, dating, hormones, menstruation, sexual activity, condoms, contraception, pregnancy, STDs, sexual impulses, and more. New to this edition is information on social networks, protecting yourself online, maintaining a positive body image, mental health, sexual orientation, gender identity, and more. Includes line drawings on most pages. Ages 12 to 16
$22.50
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Sex is a Funny Word:
A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU. A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identies, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the "facts of life" or “the birds and the bees," Sex Is a Funny Word opens up conversations between young people and their caregivers in a way that allows adults to convey their values and beliefs while providing information about boundaries, safety, and joy.
$34.95
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Real Talk About Sex and Consent
What Every Teen Needs to Know This comprehensive guide provides essential information about setting boundaries, coercion, reciprocity, and communication. You’ll also find hard facts about sex and trauma, the effects of pornography and cultural expectations, and much more. With this book, you’ll learn how to make sexual decisions that honor your sense of values and cultivate rewarding and emotionally supportive relationships throughout your life. This book goes past simple definitions of sex and consent and explores the hidden pressures, misrepresented expectations, and realities of sex—and what to do about it all.
$26.95
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Raising Feminist Boys
Written by a clinical psychologist with expertise in modern families, Raising Feminist Boys is a parent’s guide to having age appropriate conversations with boys about sexual responsibility, consent, gender, empathy, and identity. You’ll find an accessible framework that includes developmental considerations, language, and clear tools for how to talk with your son about feminism without shame, fear, or judgment. We need to have honest and informative conversations with our sons about sex and consent. We must show them how to recognize and question gender norms and bias, both within the culture and, most importantly, within ourselves.
$28.95
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Puberty Is Gross but Also Really Awesome
Puberty . . . is pretty gross for pretty much everyone. It's a smelly, hairy, sticky, and (worst of all) totally confusing time! But did you know there's a lot about puberty that makes it REALLY AWESOME? Get the whole picture with this honest, humorous, and empowering survival guide to the tween years. It's packed with straighforward illustrations, easy-to-understand scientific information, interesting studies, and tips from experts, covering everything from breast development and gender identity to acne and mental health.
$23.50
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It's Totally Normal!
An LGBTQIA+ Guide to Puberty, Sex and Gender Mother and child duo Monica and Ash Mehta are at hand to answer your most pressing sex questions. Forget the penis-in-vagina basics - this is a queer friendly guide that'll have you rethinking the very definition of sex. Combining expert advice with the personal experiences of teens all over the world, prepare to plunge into the topics they don't cover in sex ed. Masturbation, pornography, fetishes - if you're not afraid to ask, they're not afraid to answer.
$28.95
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It's Perfectly Normal
Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual Health Fully and fearlessly updated, this vital new edition of the acclaimed book on sex, sexuality, bodies, and puberty features to-the-minute information and language accompanied by new and refreshed art. Updates include: gender-neutral vocabulary throughout; an expansion on LGBTQIA topics, gender identity, sex, and sexuality; coverage of recent advances in methods of sexual safety and contraception; a revised section on abortion, including developments in the shifting politics and legislation; a sensitive and detailed expansion on the topics of sexual abuse, consent, and destigmatizing HIV/AIDS; and a modern understanding of social media and the internet that highlights its benefits and pitfalls and ways to stay safe online. Inclusive and accessible, this newest edition provides young people with the knowledge and vocabulary they need to understand their bodies, relationships, and identities in order to make responsible decisions and stay healthy.
$19.99
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GIRL: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You
This book is an inclusive growing-up guide for teen girls with information on gender and identity, dating and romance, relationships, and sex. It gives teen girls practical information that is uncensored, factual, and unbiased, and aims to help readers develop into responsible and informed adults and prepare them for healthy romantic relationships. This book also includes self-reflection questions, media resources lists, illustrations, and diary entries as additional supplemental materials. This book is unique in that it is accessible and nonjudgmental to all who self-identify as a girl.
$21.95
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Celebrate Your Body 2
The Ultimate Puberty Book for Pre-Teen and Teen Girls Puberty is one of the first signs that you're growing up--and that's something to be celebrated. If you're looking for body-positive puberty books for girls but aren't sure where to start--Celebrate Your Body 2 provides the support needed to navigate this whole puberty thing with confidence. From bras and braces to budding romantic feelings, this guide stands out among puberty books for girls as you become an expert on everything from pimples to peer pressure. Of all the puberty books for girls, this one will help you discover how your changing body is beautiful, special, and simply on the way to becoming the number one you.
$19.99
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Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!)
The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls A body-positive guide to help girls ages 8 to 12 navigate the changes of puberty with excitement and empowerment. From period care to mysterious hair in new places, this age-appropriate sex education book has the answers young girls are looking for -- in a way that they can relate to. In addition to tips on managing intense feelings, making friends, and more, this book provides advice on self-care for a healthy body.
$19.99
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Valorie Schaefer Care and Keeping of You: Body Book for Girls (Ages 8-10)
The Body Book for Younger Girls If you've wondering what's happening to your body, you're not alone! Millions of girls ages eight to ten have felt just as you do now. This guide answers your questions. from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and everything in between. With tips and facts from experts, it's a great book to help you learn about your body's changes. The Care and Keeping of You 2 for Older Girls is also available through Odin Books.
$18.95
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Cara Natterson Care and Keeping of You 2: Body Book for Girls (Ages 10+)
The Body Book for Older Girls This thoughtful advice book will guide you through the next steps of growing up. With illustrations and expert contributors, this book covers new questions about periods, your growing body, peer pressure, personal care, and more! Written for girls 10 and up, this book provides in-depth details about the physical and emotional changes you're going through. The Care and Keeping of You 1 for Younger Girls is also available through Odin Books.
$18.95
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Mayim Bialik Boying Up Growing Up for Teen Boys
Why does my voice crack like that? What should I eat to build muscle? How do I talk to someone I have a crush on? What do I do if someone calls me names or bullies me? Growing from a boy to a man is no easy task. Bodies are changing, social circles are evolving, hair is appearing in places it never was before - and on top of it all, there's the ever-present pressure to conform to the typical idea of what it means to be "manly" and masculine. But it's easier to do if you're armed with facts. The author talks directly to teen boys about what it means to grow from a boy to a man biologically, psychologically, and sociologically.
$14.99
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Charlotte Markey, Daniel Hart & Douglas Zacher Being You (Body Image Boys)
The Body Image Book for Boys From early childhood boys often feel pressured to be athletic and muscular. But what impact does this have on physical and mental well-being through their teens and beyond? Worryingly, a third of teen boys are trying to 'bulk up' due to body dissatisfaction, and boys and men account for 25% of eating disorder cases. What can we tell our boys to help them feel happy and confident simply being themselves? Being You has the answers! It's an easy-to-read, evidence-based guide to developing a positive body image for boys aged 12+. It covers all the facts on puberty, diet, exercise, self-care, mental health, social media, and everything in-between. Boys will find answers to the questions most on their mind, the truth behind many diet and exercise myths, and real-life stories from other boys. Armed with this book, they will understand that muscles don't make a man - it's enough simply being you!
$22.50
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