The what's happening to my body? book for girls
Subtitle: a growing-up guide for parents and daughters
By: Lynda Madaras, with Area Madaras ; drawings by Simon Sullivan and Jackie Aher
Contributors: Madaras, Area; Sullivan, Simon, ill; Aher, Jackie, ill
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Newmarket Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781557044488
Subjects: Growth; Teenage girls; Puberty; Juvenile literature; Physiology; Sex instruction for girls
Description: To help girls realize that they are not alone in their concerns as they go through their transformation to womanhood, they need information, and this is the best book to give and share with them. This bestselling classic, written by an experienced educator with her daughter in a reassuring and down-to-earth style, has sold over 400,000 copies and been translated into 12 languages. The introduction is for the parent, the book for the young girl. Readers will be comforted with honest, sensitive, non-judgmental straight talk on the body's changing size and shape, breasts, the reproductive organs, the menstrual cycle, body hair, puberty in boys, and much more. This expanded Third Edition addresses questions raised in the thousands of letters sent by kids to the authors over the years. Material new in this edition includes advice on "female athletic syndrome," on how to handle "unwanted attention" because of early development; information on body types, eating right, exercising, anorexia and bulimia; expanded sections on when a girl will begin puberty, more detail about the stages of development, and crucial information on AIDS, STDs, and birth control appropriate for this age. Filled with illustrations, anecdotes, and stories of real-life experiences, The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls is a comprehensive puberty education and health book for all young girls from ages 8 to 15.
Notes: Includes index.

"Resource section": p. 245-255.
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations; title: Foreword / Marcia E. Herman-Giddens, PA, Dr PH; title: Introduction for parents: Why I wrote this book; title: Addendum to the third edition - Puberty; title: Your breasts: Owner's manual; title: Public hair and other changes "down there"; title: Puberty growth spurt; title: Body hair, perspiration, pimples, and other changes; title: Reproductive organs and the menstrual cycle; title: All about having periods; title: Boys and puberty; title: Romantic and sexual feelings; title: Resource section; title: Index.