The Girl's Body Book (Fifth Edition)
Everything You Need to Know for a Healthy, Happy YOU!
Published on 7. May 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
148 pages
978-1-60433-833-1 (ISBN)
Description
The #1 bestselling Girl's Body Book includes everything you need to know about growing up, even the embarrassing stuff. The newly updated fifth edition provides advice for parents and addresses questions a pre-teen girl may have while maturing through puberty and starting her period.
"What is happening to my body?"
"How do I fit in?"
"Why is everything different?"
These questions, along with others, leave pre-teen girls feeling confused and parents wondering what to do next. From periods to peer pressure, puberty is hard! The newly updated fifth edition of The Girl's Body Book helps prepare young girls and their parents for the ups and downs of puberty, middle school, and everything in between. This guide for pre-teen girls addresses issues like changing bodies, personal hygiene, self-confidence, leadership, school safety and #MeToo. This updated fifth edition book for girls is expanded to include topics like:
Cyberbullying and internet safety
Emotional health, mindfulness, and self-esteem
Stress management
Personal boundaries, communication, and consent
Sports and leadership
and more
The Girl's Body Book helps prepare girls for puberty and beyond by giving them age appropriate information, tools, tips, and tricks to take care of themselves and grow up in a healthy environment.
Kelli Dunham, RN, BSN is a nurse, a comedian, and author of three other books: How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School, How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Your Life as a Nurse, and The Boy's Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You.
"What is happening to my body?"
"How do I fit in?"
"Why is everything different?"
These questions, along with others, leave pre-teen girls feeling confused and parents wondering what to do next. From periods to peer pressure, puberty is hard! The newly updated fifth edition of The Girl's Body Book helps prepare young girls and their parents for the ups and downs of puberty, middle school, and everything in between. This guide for pre-teen girls addresses issues like changing bodies, personal hygiene, self-confidence, leadership, school safety and #MeToo. This updated fifth edition book for girls is expanded to include topics like:
Cyberbullying and internet safety
Emotional health, mindfulness, and self-esteem
Stress management
Personal boundaries, communication, and consent
Sports and leadership
and more
The Girl's Body Book helps prepare girls for puberty and beyond by giving them age appropriate information, tools, tips, and tricks to take care of themselves and grow up in a healthy environment.
Kelli Dunham, RN, BSN is a nurse, a comedian, and author of three other books: How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School, How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Your Life as a Nurse, and The Boy's Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
HarperCollins Focus
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 10 to 99 years
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
443 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60433-833-1 (9781604338331)
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Persons
Kelli Dunham, RN, BSN, is a nurse, stand-up comic, and author of How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School, How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Your Life as a Nurse, and The Boy's Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You, also published by Applesauce Press. She has worked as a primary care and home visiting nurse with first-time new moms. She has lived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Ohio, Oklahoma, Florida, Portland, Oregon, New York, and on a houseboat in Philadelphia. In her spare time she likes to read, skateboard, and she would really, really like to learn to play the banjo.