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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Teen sex. STIs. Sexting. Rape. Sexual harassment. #MeToo and #YesAllWomen. Today's teens launch into their sexual lives facing challenging issues but with little if any formalized learning about sex and human reproduction. Many of them get their sex ed from online porn. Through this authoritative, inclusive, and teen-friendly overview, readers learn the basics about sex, sexuality, human reproduction and development, birth control, gender identity,...
544) Cold Rock River
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Adie Jenkins, a married seventeen-year old with a new baby, discovers the diary of a pregnant teenage slave written as the Civil War was winding down. As the story unfolds Adie wonders if her midwife, Willa Mae Satterfiled, may be the daughter of the slave girl.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Willful, outspoken, and precariously naive, thirteen-year-old AnnMarie Walker dreams of a world beyond Far Rockaway, where the sway of the neighborhood keeps her tied to old ideas about success. Then one day, while attending a high school for pregnant girls, she comes across a flyer advertising movie auditions in Manhattan for an independent film. Astonishingly, improbably, and four months before she's due to give birth--she lands a lead role. For...
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
"A jewel of a book by this celebrated Chicana lesbian writer chronicling 'one small human being's struggle for survival, ' her 21/2-pound premature baby boy. While the specifics belong to Moraga and her loved ones, the tale is told in common with every woman who has experienced the wonder and terror of pregnancy, the trauma of a child's near-death."--Jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Full of mother-wisdom, reassurance, and support, Sweet Sleep is the first book on nights and naps for breastfeeding families. It is a comprehensive how-to guide for making sane and safe decisions on how and where your family sleeps, backed by the latest research in pediatric care"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
549) Rosemary's baby
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Rosemary and Guy start a new life in Paris, where a good deed leads to friendship with a rich and powerful couple who may be hiding a dark secret.
550) Alaska nights
Author
Series
Midnight sons volume 2
Pub. Date
2017, 1995.
Description
Daddy's Little Helper: Mitch Harris is a friend of the O'Hallorans, and he's responsible for law and order in Hard Luck. He's also the widowed father of a little girl although he never talks about his marriage. But it's not long before seven-year-old Chrissie decides that her new teacher, Bethany Ross, is the perfect candidate for wife and mom!
Because of the Baby: Matt Caldwell, Charles O'Halloran's brother-in-law, is an easygoing charmer, and still...
551) Las madres
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"En la conservadora comunidad de Oceandrive hay un grupo de mujeres que se reu⁺ѓnen en torno a la iglesia de Upper Room a contar los chismes del pueblo: tres jóvenes, Nadia, Luke y Aubrey se enredan en un triángulo amoroso. Narrada a mu⁺ѓltiples voces y con una fascinante prosa lírica, la historia es una mezcla de secretos, amistad, traición y muerte que marca el paso de la adolescencia a la adultez, con el sinsabor de una pregunta molesta:...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"This series is inspired by the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series, which explores important issues, placing expert opinions from a wide range of sources in a unique pro/con format. Like its predecessor, Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking. Even more user-friendly and accessible than its parent series, it offers a wealth of information at a lower reading level, in a bright, engaging...
553) Waiting for June
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In the third trimester of her pregnancy, Florida high school senior Sophie tries to discover the identity of the father she has never known, while adamantly refusing to disclose the name of her own baby's father.
Author
Series
Rosemary Beach novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Rush promised her forever .... but promises can be broken. Torn between his love for his family and his love for Blaire, Rush has to find a way to save one without losing the other. In the end one has to be more important. Letting go isn't easy. Blaire believed in her fairytale .... but no one can live in a fantasy. Her love for Rush and desire to have a family keep her believing they can find a way for this to work. Until she has to make the right...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Covering everything from burping and naptime to filing for paternity leave and setting up a safe play area, this is the complete survival manual for first-time dads. Discover more than 100 things dads can do to help their baby--and their partner--thrive in the first year.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Written and directed by Eliza Hittman, the film is an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn and her cousin Skylar embark across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery, and compassion.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
En el Quebec de los a©łos 50, franceses e ingleses se toleran a duras penas; tal como sucede entre los padres de Maggie. El padre de Maggie es un angloparlante con grandes ambiciones para su hija que no incluyen un matrimonio con Gabriel Ph©♭nix, un joven franc©♭s y pobre que vive en la granja de al lado. Sin embargo, el coraz©đn de Maggie le pertenece por completo. Cuando queda embarazada a los quince a©łos, sus padres la obligan a dar...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Teens deserve clear, accurate information about sex and consent. Real Talk About Sex and Consent is a complete guide for teen readers with essential information about setting boundaries, coercion, reciprocity, how the body and brain respond to trauma, and communication. With this comprehensive road map, teen readers will learn how to make sexual decisions that honor their sense of values and cultivate happy, healthy, and emotionally supportive relationships...