A sensitive and informative guide to puberty for girls - tackling everything from body changes to mood swings, hormones and first periods.
Bright, cartoon-style illustrations and scientific diagrams explain the physical and emotional changes of growing up in a simple and reassuring way, while the contents and index pages make key topics easy to find.
Chapters in this book include:
- Growing up
- When will it happen?
- Taller and wider
- Getting hairy
- Getting breasts
- The bra business
- How does it start?
- What's it all about?
- The changes inside you ...
- ... and on the outside
- Why periods happen
- Using towels
- Using tampons
- Coping with periods
- Your feelings
- Good food
- More about eating
- Keep moving
- Keep clean
- From the neck up
- How boys' bodies work
- Boys have worries too
- Problems to avoid
This is Book 7 in the What and Why Series. See all What and Why books here.
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TRACY C. GOLD is a writer, editor, and mom living in Baltimore, Maryland. Her writing has been published in YARN, Youth Imagination, The Stoneslide Corrective, and several other magazines. She earned her MFA in Fiction from the University of Baltimore and is the social media and membership coordinator for her region of SCBWI.
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