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Rebel Girls
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Confidence Code for Girls meets The Care & Keeping of You in this bold, bighearted book about growing up with unshakable confidence. Puberty comes with a lot of changes for girls today. There's the thrilling stuff: making friends, discovering their superpowers, and finding their voices. Then there are the not-so-fun parts: body changes, school stress, and totally understandable social anxiety. It's enough to make a Rebel Girl's head spin! That's...
Author
Publisher
Rebel Girls, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"En la adolescencia experimentarás muchos cambios. Vivirás momentos emocionantes como hacer nuevas amigas, encontrar tu lugar y descubrir tus superpoderes; y momentos no tan divertidos, como sufrir estrés en las clases, cambios en tu cuerpo o ansiedad social. ¡Puede que sientas que te estás volviendo loca! Pero no te preocupes, estamos aquí para ayudarte... Esta guía llena de consejos útiles, cuestionarios divertidos, y preguntas y respuestas...
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English
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"Teen girls need clear and accurate information about relationships, sexuality, safety, and consent more than ever. Written by two experts in teen mental health, this much-needed guide offers empowering tools to help teen girls build self-esteem, clarify their values, understand their sexual identity and boundaries, decide what feels right for them, and what to do when things go wrong so that they can safely navigate dating online and in person"--...
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Teenage girls tell their most urgent stories in personal essays, punctuated by inspiration and advice from Zadie Smith, Roxane Gay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, and more of today's great writers. Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices offers a brave and timely portrait of teenage-girl life in the United States over the past twenty years. They're working part-time jobs to make ends meet, deciding...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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When seven-year-old Bana Alabed took to Twitter to describe the horrors she and her family were experiencing in war-torn Syria, her heartrending messages touched the world and gave a voice to millions of innocent children. Bana's happy childhood was abruptly upended by civil war when she was only three years old. Over the next four years, she knew nothing but bombing, destruction, and fear. Her harrowing ordeal culminated in a brutal siege where she,...
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Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
©2005.
Language
English
Description
Based on an actual memoir written by Maritcha Remond Lyons, who was born and raised in New York City, this poignant story tells what it was like to be a black child born free during the days of slavery. Everyday experiences are interspersed with hight-point moments, such as visiting the U.S.'s first world's fair. Also included are the Draft Riots of 1863, when Maritcha and her siblings fled to Brooklyn while her parents stayed behind to protect their...
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Three Summers is the story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia. They navigate the joys and pitfalls of adolescence on their family's little island in the middle of the Una River. When finally confronted with the harsh truths of the adult world around them, their bond gives them the resilience to discover and hold fast to their true selves."-- Amazon.com.
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