Book Reviews - Teens and Sexuality

Teens and Sexuality

And Words Can Hurt Forever: How To Protect Adolescents From Bullying,Harrassment, and Emotional Violence by James Garbarino, PhD, and Elle deLara, PhD (The Free Press, 2002)

Blue Jean: What Young Women Are Thinking, Saying and Doing by Sherry S. Handel (Blue Jean Press, 2001)

The Blueprint for My Girls: How to Build a Life Full of Courage, Determination & Self-love by Yasmin Shiraz (Fireside, 2004)

Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt): A Dad's Advice for Daughters
by Philip Van Munching, is an astute, very funny, and, in most cases, on-target guide for teen girls on some important topics: body image and bullies, sex and romance, grief and letting go. (Simon and Schuster, 2005)

Field Guide to the American Teenager: A Parent's Companion by Micheal Riera, PhD, and Joseph Di Prsco, PhD (Perseus Publishing, 2000)

From Magical Child to Magical Teen: A Guide to Adolescent Development by Joseph Chilton Pearce (Park Street Press, 2003)

Girls to Women: Women to Girls by Bunny McCune and Deb Traunstein (Celestial Arts, 1998)

Girls Who Rocked the World 2: Heriones from Harriet Tubman to Mia Hamm by Michelle Roehm (Beyond Words Publishing, 2000)

In Your Face: Stories From the Lives of Queer Youth by Mary L. Gray (Harrington Park Press, 1999)

It's Your Rite: Girls' Coming-of-AgeStories compiled by Nora E. Coon (Beyond Words Publishing, 2003)

Moon Mother, Moon Daughter: Myths and Rituals that Celebrate a Girl's Coming of Age by Janet Lucy and Terri Allison (Fair Winds Press, 2002)

The Queer Parent's Primer: A Lesbian and Gay Families' Guide to Navigating the Straight World by Stephanie A. Brill (New Harbinger Publications, 2001)

Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman by Jeanne Elium and Don Elium (Celestial Arts, 2003)

The Real Boys Workbook by William S. Pollack, PhD and Kathleen Cushman (Villard, 2001)

Rites of Passage: A Celebration of Menarche by Linda M. La Flamme(Synchronicity Press, 2000) <