Features the Nebula Award-winning novella "Lost Girls." In these modern myths and tales for the young and the young at hear, Jane Yolen transforms the impossible into the familiar and real. Among the
Written for girls ages 8-12, Girlz Want to Know provides answers to questions about friends, family, and faith, as well as changing bodies, boys, and the future. This is a companion product for the Y
Dissects Southern social-climbing and the lives of three Alabama girls--Sarina Summers, Nicole Hicks, and Bitty Jack Carlson--as they strive to achieve their ambitions, confront obsessive relationship
The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young g
The start of hormonal changes can be troubling, even traumatic, for young girls. Now fully revised and updated with a parents’ guide, Period explains in a straightforward manner the changes all
Full of sugar, spice, and everything nice, this free-spirited collection of quotes and musings by beloved writers including Anne Frank and Louisa May Alcott, accompany Scriptures and adorable painting
The Hatford boys' New Year's resolution is "the girls can stay . . . but only if they play by our rules." Their mother insists that they "treat those girls as though they were your sisters." Okay, but
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around th
This collection is organized in five part: Education for Girls and Women; Women and Work; Women and Politics; Issues of Gender; and Women in Art and Literature. It includes more than 90 excerpts by so
"A deeply troubling, memorable account of teen girls learning the ways of whiteness, Kenny's ethnography helps us to see how a white norm is produced and maintained in suburbia and lets us eavesdrop a
Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw i
There once was a time when the concept of equal pay for equal work did not exist, when women of all ages were "girls," when abortion was a back-alley procedure, when there was no such thing as a rape
A white woman studies upper-class eighth grade girls at her alma mater on Long Island and finds a culture founded on misinformation about its own racial and class identity. A black American researcher
In Thisbe Nissen's award-winning debut story collection, characters teeter on the verge of love, of life, of oncoming cataclysms after which Things Will Never Be the Same. Against the varied backdrops
While exile is a popular contemporary theme, this study is perhaps the first in its field to examine literary representations of adolescent girls' exile experience. Harwell (Russian and German, Wabash
In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These s
Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Hom
One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs, and Gender examines the causes, nature, and meaning of female gang involvement. Miller situates the study of female gang membership in the context of current directions
Find the perfect "birth-day" present in this collection of 33 darling cover-ups for baby boys and girls. Fashioned in soft pastels, these fun-to-knit designs come with plenty of close-up photography a
The complex issues girls face as they enter their teens can often undercut their self-image. This book is designed as a hands-on tool for mothers, fathers, and daughters confronting this period of tr
The companion to The Science Book for Girls and Other Intelligent Beings shows, through puzzles and activities, that math is part of everyday life and introduces real women who use math in their daily
Although they've grown up in a culture saturated with sex, women in their twenties and thirties have no sex book of their own. Sex and Single Girls fills this void with personal accounts of pleasure,
The years between ages 8-12 can be an awkward and uncertain time for many girls. Not quite a little girl, but still not a teenager---just in between. Well, author and teen advocate, Susie Shellenberge
Morris Plains is where Teddy Roosevelt, Gustave Stickley, Thomas Edison, Buffalo Bill, Lillian Russell, and the Flora Dora girls came to dine. It is home to the first mighty Arabian horses ever to be
Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret R. Higonnet bring together twenty-two scholars to look closely at the complexities of children's culture.Girls, Boys, Books, Toys asks questions about how the gender sy
A fast-paced book about two girls' basketball teams fighting for the championship."The Cardinals and Bluejays are in the final game of the championship. The tension builds as the clock ticks away. The
Old Witch, Little Witch Girl, Weeny Witch, and two real girls in a fantasy that blends the worlds of reality and imagination. A Halloween classic about the power of make-believe.
Girls may be called "sluts" for any number of reasons, including being outsiders, early developers, victims of rape, targets of others' revenge. Often the labels has nothing to do with sex -- the girl
Winner of four major awards, this updated edition of Joan Jacobs Brumberg's Fasting Girls, presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. Here is a tableau of
Once nobody noticed Santa Rosa's Thunder. They were a ragtag team of girls who wanted to play soccer, and no one took them seriously. Their male coach expected little from his "ladies, " and their me
Explores the day-to-day struggles and challenges facing young girls, such as self-esteem and handling fights with friends, through a series of one-page essays for every day of the year. Original.
Profiles the lives and influences of six female naturalists: Maria Sibylla Merian, Anna Botsford Comstock, Frances Hamerstrom, Rachel Carson, Miriam Rothschild, and Jane Goodall.
"What a big girl you are!" Potty training can be fun. With warmth and sensitivity, Joanna Cole and Maxie Chambliss guide young girls though the challenges and rewards potty training—from the first ste
