On Those Runaway Days
This book is for adults who want to talk to young children about personal safety. This full-color picture book helps teach kids the seven important rules to personal safety, covering topics like safe versus harmful secrets, safe versus harmful touches, and the importance of having a community of trusted adults.
Books for Parents of Preteens (Ages 9-13)
Talking to Your Kids about Sex
A Go Parents! Guide, by Lauri Berkenkamp and Steven Atkins
Sex & Sensibility
The Thinking Parent’s Guide to Talking Sense about Sex, by Deborah Roffman
Everything You NEVER Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid They’d Ask)
by Justin Richardson and Mark Schuster
From Diapers to Dating
A Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children, by Debra Haffner
Books for Preteens (Ages 9-13)
It’s Perfectly Normal
Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health, by Robie Harris, Illustrated by Michael Emberley
The Amazing Life of Birds
The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech, by Gary Paulsen
The What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Girls
A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Daughters, by Lynda Madaras
What’s Going On Down There?
Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask, by Karen Gravelle
Growing Up
It’s a Girl Thing, by Mavis Jukes
The Care & Keeping of You
The Body Book for Girls, by American Girl Library
Period.
A Girl’s Guide, by Joanne Loulan and Bonnie Worthen, Illustrated by Chris Wold and Marcia Quakenbush
Changes in You & Me
A Book about Puberty Mostly for Boys, by Paulette Bourgeois & Martin Wolfish
Let’s Talk About S-E-X
A Guide for Kids 9 to 12 and Their Parents, by Sam Gitchel & Lorri Foster
Asking about Sex and Growing Up
A Question-and-Answer Book for Boys and Girls, by Joanna Cole, Illustrated by Alan Tiegreen
Puberty Girl
by Shushann Movsessian
It’s So Amazing!
A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies and Families, by Robie Harris, Illustrated by Michael Emberley
The What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys
A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Sons, by Lynda Madaras
Ready, Set, Grow!
A What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Younger Girls, by Lynda Madaras, Illustrated by Linda Davick
The Period Book
Everything You Don’t Want to Ask (But Need to Know), by Karen Gravelle
“What’s Happening to Me?”
A Guide to Puberty, by Peter Mayle
Puberty’s Wild Ride
by Marta McCare & the Family Planning Council of PAby Marta McCare & the Family Planning Council of PA
Hair in Funny Places
by Babette Cole
The Guy Book
An Owner’s Manual, by Mavis Jukes
What’s the Big Secret?
Talking about Sex with Girls and Boys, by Laurie Krasney Brown
Girl Stuff
A Survival Guide to Growing Up, by Margaret Blackston and Elissa Haden Guest, Illustrated by Barbara Pollak
Good Pictures Bad Pictures
Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids, by Kristen A. Jenson, MA and Gail Poyner, PhD
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