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Overview

The highly acclaimed girls' guide to adolescence by a Newbery Honor-winning author is now available in a rack-sized paperback edition. Reviewers were unanimous in their praise for this useful and important book.

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Overview

The highly acclaimed girls' guide to adolescence by a Newbery Honor-winning author is now available in a rack-sized paperback edition. Reviewers were unanimous in their praise for this useful and important book.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
It's difficult to imagine an adolescent girl who wouldn't benefit from this candid, supportive and often genuinely funny guide to surviving-and enjoying-those awkward pre- and early-teen years. Newbery Honor author Jukes bares her soul about her own sometimes misguided experiences growing up in the 1950s, when typical parental strategy "was to withhold all facts about sex from kids until the kids got old enough to be so embarrassed by the topic that they would refuse to talk about it." A rich supply of personal anecdotes lightens up her explicit, thoroughly accessible discussion of puberty and sexuality; Tilley's (Riddle-icious) breezy cartoons also put readers at ease. The author fills her text with sage advice adolescents can't hear often enough, stressing the importance of resisting peer pressure, respecting and taking good care of one's body, and communicating with and seeking help from parents and other responsible adults ("Looking like an adult doesn't mean that you're expected to take on adult roles and responsibilities. You're a kid, entitled to the love, care and protection of the adults around you"). While she tackles tough subjects like sexual abuse, harassment and sexually transmitted diseases, she includes tips on more frivolous, kid-pleasing topics, such as shopping for clothes and selecting the right makeup. Written with a bracing, inspiriting honesty, this volume will spark communication between parents and daughters. Ages 11-14.
Children's Literature
There are such specific and important stages in a young woman's coming of age that I'm grateful to see individual books to guide them through! Even though my mother handled my initiation well, I still remember being upset when I got The Curse. As I watch my daughter mature, I realize that information and attitudes have changed so much that our children approach womanhood with more joy than fear, more happiness, than dread. Mavis Jukes' It's a Girl Thing is for girls 11-13. For years, Jukes has been a powerful contributor to children's books, but this is her first nonfiction book. Revealing much about her own coming of age with funny stories, she tells about everything from first bras to first kisses. The tone is factual and playful. Her book is as on-target as her fiction!
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School Library Journal
Grades 5-9.
Combining her own and friends' reminiscences with current research, Jukes discusses a wide variety of subjects from buying a bra to sexual harassment and abuse. In a warm, conversational style, she covers body changes in both boys and girls, menstruation, general health, drinking and drugs, sexual feelings, pregnancy, contraceptives, and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. The text is sometimes humorous, but always conveys caring, respect, and concern. Illustrations consist of only a few small cartoons. Several styles of type are used to vary the look of the pages. The list for further reading offers good suggestions. Written for the same audience as Karen and Jennifer Gravelle's The Period Book (Walker, 1996), Jukes's book shares the same scope of coverage as Lynda Madaras's What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls (Newmarket, 1987) and Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman's The New Teenage Body Book (Berkley, 1992). A fine and thoughtful effort.
-- Martha Gordon, formerly at South Salem Library, NY
Jennifer Baumgardner
"Frank and thoughtful, It's a Girl Thing tackles the complex terrain of sex and our bodies for preteens and early teens. A pre- Our Bodies/Ourselves."
-- Ms. Magazine

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780679873921
  • Publisher: Random House Children's Books
  • Publication date: 4/28/1996
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 144
  • Age range: 10 - 14 Years
  • Series: It's a Girl Thing Series
  • Product dimensions: 6.96 (w) x 9.04 (h) x 0.43 (d)

Meet the Author

Mavis Jukes is the award-winning author of several books for children and teenagers, including the Newbery Honor Book Like Jake and Me .  Her other titles include No One is Going to Nashville , Blackberries in the Dark , Getting Even , Wild Iris Bloom , and I'll See You in My Dreams .  Mavis taught school for several years — and was a lawyer — before becoming a children's book writer.  She volunteers as an attorney in the area of juvenile defense and is presently a language arts specialist in a public elementary school.  She lives with her husband, the artist Robert Hudson, and their teenage daughters in Sonoma County, California.  

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 17, 2002

    AWESOME PUBERTY INFO!

    This book was really great. It talked about puberty and sex, drugs and health, and the author wrote her experiences, which made me either laugh or feel sympathetic. If you wanna know about YOU and you're between ages 9-14, get this book!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 24, 2007

    BEAUTIFUL BOOK!!!

    I highly reccomend this book! Mrs. Jukes uses her own experiences when she was about my age '12' so she can relate to the reader and the information is so accurate and reassuring and accually interesting! And I love her stories and her enthusiasm! And get this - no gory pictures! This is one of my favorite books on puberty.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 5, 2004

    This book rocks

    this book is awsome for s who want to learn everything about what to look for and changes thats going to happen to your body later in life.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 8, 2009

    Oh Yeah!

    I love this book! I really want a bra!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 25, 2000

    very good

    in 1996, when i was 11, i was a very shy girl that needed some information. i got this book, and my questions were answered about my growing body. it was helpful, but what i really needed was the period book.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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