Title : Like another poster, this is not directly a book dealing with this stuff, but I found the Judy Blume series really helpful. "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret" and "Deenie" in particular.
Author: Judy Blume
Age: 11-14 or so
How you accessed the book : Donated from my older sister.
In almost every one, a girl deals with getting her period and it also touches upon some issues that teenaged girls may be going through, like scoliosis. The great thing is that it puts "growing up" into the contexts of young women, not just "this is what will be happening to you" like in other books.
She also wrote a book called "Then Again, Maybe I Won't" which dealt with male puberty. I learned about what it meant to "get hard" and have a wet dream... which was helpful for a curious girl in her pre-teens. I never found it fair that we only learned about what happens to girls in those elementary puberty videos.
These were supplimented with "The Care and Keeping of You" which has been posted about already. The combination of these books gave me a pretty comprehensive idea of what to expect at puberty.
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Date: 2009-05-06 12:45 am (UTC)Author: Judy Blume
Age: 11-14 or so
How you accessed the book : Donated from my older sister.
In almost every one, a girl deals with getting her period and it also touches upon some issues that teenaged girls may be going through, like scoliosis. The great thing is that it puts "growing up" into the contexts of young women, not just "this is what will be happening to you" like in other books.
She also wrote a book called "Then Again, Maybe I Won't" which dealt with male puberty. I learned about what it meant to "get hard" and have a wet dream... which was helpful for a curious girl in her pre-teens. I never found it fair that we only learned about what happens to girls in those elementary puberty videos.
These were supplimented with "The Care and Keeping of You" which has been posted about already. The combination of these books gave me a pretty comprehensive idea of what to expect at puberty.