Friendships

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Girls like that and other plays for teenagers

Books
Lower secondary
Middle secondary
Upper secondary
Australia
adolescence
body image
emotional literacy
families
friendships
gender
gender diversity
LGBTI
puberty
sexting
sexual diversity

Fiction


'Girls Like That' explores the pressures caused by technology when a schoolgirls naked photograph goes viral.

'Banana Boys' is about the challenge of being on the school football team and being secretly gay.

'Holloway Jones' is a about with growing up with a parent in prison.

'Pronoun' is about two childhood sweethearts dealing with the fact that one of them, Isabella, has come out as transgender.

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Puberty Boy

Books
Upper primary
Lower secondary
Middle secondary
Upper secondary
Australia
bodies
friendships
puberty

Puberty Boy explains the transitions that boys need to go through to become healthy young men in a unique, colourful and commonsense way.

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Puberty Girl

Books
Upper primary
Lower secondary
Middle secondary
Upper secondary
Australia
adolescence
bodies
friendships
puberty

A practical guide for teenage girls on understanding the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty.

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Relationships, sex and other stuff

Free books/brochures
Books
Upper primary
Lower secondary
Middle secondary
Upper secondary
Teacher
Parent
Western Australia
bodies
consent
contraception
friendships
gender
gender diversity
intimate relationships
law
LGBTI
online
pornography
puberty
safer sex
sexting
sexual diversity

A WA Department of Health booklet for teenagers addressing friends and relationships, sex and pregnancy.

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The Paper Bag Baby

Books
Lower secondary
Middle secondary
Upper secondary
International
Fiction
emotional literacy
families
friendships
parenting
puberty

Fiction. 240 page novel. Edward, the school wheeler-dealer with dreams of becoming a millionaire by the time he's twenty, who finds a baby wrapped in a paper bag in the park. Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. (12+ years)

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The Puberty Book: A Guide for Children and Teenagers (4th Ed.)

Books
Upper primary
Lower secondary
Middle secondary
Upper secondary
Australia
Puberty
bodies
friendships
intimate relationships
puberty

A humorous guide for children and teenagers about the changes that happen at puberty.