Growing up for Girls

Reducere. In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940...

Contributions by Hena Ahmad, Linda Pierce Allen, Mary J. Henderson Couzelis, Sarah Park Dahlen, Lan Dong, Tomo Hattori, Jennifer Ho, Ymitri Mathiso...

Gregory was born February 9, 1959, Columbus, Ohio, having two loving parents, raising five children, three boys and two girls. They spent the early...

Reducere. When a girl dares to dream, she can be anything. This is a story for all the little girls who have been told that girls can't do that, be that, dre...

Reducere. About 'Beautiful: Game of Crones'Teenage life has so many problems Supercharged hormones, overnight pimples and social anxiety... to name a few. So...

Reducere. Hillside Fields provides a broad view of the development of sports in West Virginia, from one of the first golf clubs in America at Oakhurst Links ...

Reducere. Taking readers on a provocative tour through thirty years of media images about mothers -- the superficial achievements of celebrity moms, the sens...

Reducere. John Bishop isn't your typical single dad.Reserved, impatient, and utterly clueless.Running the family's bed and breakfast has many perks. Working ...

Reducere. Coretta Scott King Honor author Varian Johnson teams up with rising cartoonist Shannon Wright for a delightful middle-grade graphic novel!Maureen a...

Reducere. Despite decades of effort to create fair classrooms and schools, gender bias is alive and well, and in some ways growing. School practices continue...

Reducere. Do you want your teen girl to develop her own quiet time with God?Looking for a perfect gift for your teen daughter/ granddaughter/ niece to help t...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, Buzzfeed, PureWow, New York Magazine and more "A pag...

Reducere. The most anticipated J. Sterling release of the year is finally here You've waited years to meet Jack Carter's son and the wait is over Strap in an...

Reducere. I wish my father had been present in my life, so I would not have accepted a lot of crap from men... Growing up, I didn't feel loved by my mother w...

From the creator of the hit TV series The Bold Type comes an empowering and heartfelt novel about a future female president's senior year of high s...

"Mommy, is my hair nice?" That's what Kaliah asked her mom one day after dinner. Kaliah and Asara migrated from Jamaica to Canada four years ago wi...

Reducere. DescriptionFiction. Flash Fiction. Novella-in-Flash. Art. Photography. Hybrid Genre. Every old photo album contains a multitude of mysteries--the p...

DescriptionThe beautiful 150th anniversary edition of Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of the four March sisters, featuring new illustrations and a...

Reducere. Inspired by the life experiences of the author and others who had narcissistic or toxic parents.This is a tale of two girls who were born on the sa...

Reducere. Black Girl. Who Me? Yes You, Be All That You Can Be: speaks to every girl of color who ever thought they stood out for all the wrong reasons. Black...

Growing up isn't easy, and the trials and tribulations of being a teenager can be particularly confusing for girls with Autism Spectrum Disorders (...

A blazingly original debut novel about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York--a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic ...

Reducere. When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through. "Ghostbread" makes real for us the shifting homes and unending hunger that shape ...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and CNBC commenter Keith Boykin expands on the "It Gets Better" project by bringing together 25 essays by men of ...

Reducere. DescriptionUnderstanding race in America--its history of oppression, inequality, inequity, prejudice, and discrimination--has been a journey for ma...

Reducere. Grandparents are our teachers, our allies, and a great source of love. They supply endless stories that connect us to a past way of life and to peo...

Reducere. They were the two youngest daughters of the world's most powerful man - Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia. Known to their family and friends as "The Litt...

Reducere. I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected. I wonder if she knows that at least one of her books made a grown woman fin...

Reducere. No matter how high-functioning children with autism or Asperger's may be, they are going to have trouble with their sensory issues. Enter Jennifer ...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael DonkorNominated for the Edinburgh First Book Award - One of The Observer's "New Faces of Fiction" - One of The Mill...

Reducere. DescriptionPowerful...Poignant...Inspiring As a child growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Gregory Marshall was enamored with the fast life. Mo...

Reducere. "Six generations of readers have found in the story of the March family universal truths about girls, families and growing up." -The Guardian "A Na...

Reducere. A college fling between two women turns into a lifelong connection--and spells out a new kind of love story for a millennial, immigrant America. "A...

Reducere. Being different means a death sentence... A series of deadly explosions in Washington D.C. creates a PR nightmare for the Clann...they've been oute...

Reducere. Little Women is the triumphant novel by Louisa May Alcott that has inspired nearly all who've read it. The inspiration for several major motion pic...

Reducere. Here is a hit for any classroom Written for you and your students, this helpful text contains thirty-four real-life scenes for boys, girls and mixe...

Reducere. This is a dual English Tongan language book where Sione Tapani Mangisi shares some of his memories about growing up in Tonga in the nineteen fiftie...

Reducere. Growing up in the caverns underneath the colosseum is anything but ordinary for a Roman teenager like Noemi. Helping her father train wild beasts f...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you have a mission, a dream to explore, but no one like you has achieved it before... Meet Dr. Ellen Ochoa--a determined space pionee...

It was 1970. Fighting between the Jordanian Armed Forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization had been escalating, but a Quaker serving at a s...

Reducere. Remembering Rosie is about Block's childhood on a Wisconsin dairy farm in the mid-twentieth century. Growing up on the homestead with her parents a...

Reducere. In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth, and Mary Karr'sThe Liar's Club, Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about ...

Meredith and Sofie Jacobs have been sharing a journal since Sofie was nine. They created this fun, fresh volume to help other moms and daughters ge...

For every woman that has ever felt trapped; a funny, raw and empowering mid-life-crisis. Creator, mother, lover, and social media phenomenon Tova L...

It's a boring, hardscrabble life for three sisters growing up on a Michigan farm in the throes of the Great Depression. But, when young Nellie, dig...

Reducere. Great Lakes Book AwardsWhile growing up in Versailles, an Indiana farm community, Linda Furiya tried to balance the outside world of Midwestern Ame...

Growing up is never easy. It's even harder when you have a mother who doesn't understand, a nagging sense of self-doubt, and a secret crush you can...

Reducere. DescriptionI am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark.Makeda June Kirkland is eleven-years-old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melisa HolmesAuthor: Trish HutchisonUpdated for 2017 and following, this edition of Girlology's "There's Something New Abou...

Reducere. For more than twelve years, the city of Ju rez, Mexico -- just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas -- has been the center of a horrific crime...

Reducere. DescriptionIMAGINE A FUTURE WHERE GROWING FOOD IS A CRIMEAlthough kidnapped by GRIM in an effort to strike back at her father--escaped former leade...

Reducere. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! "Brave, fresh . . . unforgettable."--The New York Times Book Revi...

Reducere. -Simply wonderful.- --Los Angeles Times Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's brilliant and buoyant and beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters ...

Reducere. Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed ra...

Reducere. Willie Morris's collection of sports stories, Always Stand In Against The Curve, is a book for those of us lucky enough to have shot baskets under ...

Reducere. Childhood friends Hannah, Maya, Blue and Renee share a bond that feels more like family. Growing up, they had difficult home lives, and the summers...

Reducere. One of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Electric Literature * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * Th...

"Hilarious... Nugent] documents her journey to feminism while skewering misogynist tropes and delivering some painful truths." -Publishers Weekly (...

Reducere. Lee Casey plays guitar in a noise band called Ottermeat, about to leave NJ, to try and make it in Los Angeles. For now, he's squatting in a collaps...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on the author's childhood journals, "a smart, funny, compassionate journal of the author's bout with anorexia at age eleven" (Ente...

Reducere. What has he done? What's happening to him? And what on Earth is that smell? For Colin Strauss, puberty stinks. Blackouts, hallucinations, and lapse...

Reducere. DescriptionNeekna and Chemai are two little girls growing up in the Okanagan Valley in the time before European contact. Through these two friends,...

Reducere. For every tween girl wondering about her changing body and changing brain, this funny and highly illustrated guide is the answer. Packed with advic...

DescriptionA tender story about three sisters coming of age in Greece over the course of three summers, now available after being out of print for ...

DescriptionCharlie Dixon never had it easy. Growing up in a loveless home, she gave the saying "looking for love in all the wrong places, " its mea...

Reducere. EBONY and IVY are two college educated, baaad females who are cut from the same cloth. Raised as "sisters, " due to their fathers being best friend...

Reducere. INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A beautiful tale of hope, courage, and sisterhood--inspired by the real House of Mercy and the girls confined ther...

Reducere. Curl up in a cozy corner with a collection of experiences from a preachers kid (PK) viewpoint. These stories have simmered for over twenty years in...

This charmingly illustrated guide for girls is full of facts and advice about growing up, puberty, body image, friendship, crushes and more! Writte...

An illustrated journal to inspire tween and teen girls Every girl needs a little inspiration--especially when the going gets tough or someone tries...