Becoming a teen is an important milestone in every girl's life. It's even more important to get answers and advice to the most common health issues girls face from a trusted source. The American Medical Association Girl'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 these important topics and more:
Puberty and what kinds of physical and emotional changes you can expect--from your developing body to your feelings about boys
The importance of eating the right foods and taking care of your body
Your reproductive system inside and out
Starting your period--what it means and how to handle it
Thinking about relationships and dealing with new feelings
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Mandatory reading for girls:
Excellent, well written and not too much information. Just the right amount of thought provoking info to help create adult/pre-teen conversation.
The Feminist:
i am buying this book for a young girl i know who is turning eleven. i liked how the book covered not only body and feelings but sex too. if you one star and two star reviewers haven't noticed but the same book for boys by the ama has a higher star rating. and no one who wrote a review about the ama boy book said that talking about sex with boys was wrong, only the people who wrote a review about the girl book said that. how interesting. now, you kinda wonder how girls get raped in the first place?
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Not for the tween:
I had ordered this book for my twelve year old and was really disappointed. I was hoping for a tasteful book that talked a little about the birds and the bees as well as body changes. What I got was a book that dicusses oral sex, anal sex and it's Ok to be gay. Too much for the child barely becoming a teen.I would not recommend it. I returned it.
Section on sex too much for young readers:
Until the very end of the book, I was impressed and my daughter seemed pleased. However, I found the chapter on sex to be bothersome. My daughter is 10 and while we have discussed sex, I don't feel that a book of this type for this age group (grades 4-7) should be defining anal sex. I am not opposed to discussing sex openly and opening dialog in which we can bring up our morals, but I don't see the purpose in explaining oral sex and anal sex in a book intended for this age group.
