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You know, sex : bodies, gender, puberty, and other things! / by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square Books for Young Readers, 2022.Description: 432 p. : ill.; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781644210802 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.37/2044 23
  • 613.9071 23
Contents:
Letter to the reader -- Introduction -- What is sex? -- Bodies -- Gender -- Puberty -- Feelings -- Consent -- Talking -- Relationships -- Reproduction -- Touching -- Safety -- The last class -- Glossary.
Summary: "In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty -- hormones, reproduction, and development -- but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being. Centering young people's experiences of pressures and joy, risk and reward, and confusion and discovery, there are chapters on body autonomy, disclosure, stigma, harassment, pornography, trauma, masturbation, consent, boundaries and safety in our media-saturated world, puberty and reproduction that includes trans, non-binary, and intersex bodies and experience, and more. Racially and ethnically diverse, inclusive of cross-disability experience, this is a book for every kind of young person and every kind of family. You Know, Sex is the first thoroughly modern sex ed book for every body navigating puberty and adolesence, essential for kids, everyone who knows a kid, and anyone who has ever been a kid"--From publisher.

Includes index.

Letter to the reader -- Introduction -- What is sex? -- Bodies -- Gender -- Puberty -- Feelings -- Consent -- Talking -- Relationships -- Reproduction -- Touching -- Safety -- The last class -- Glossary.

"In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty -- hormones, reproduction, and development -- but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being. Centering young people's experiences of pressures and joy, risk and reward, and confusion and discovery, there are chapters on body autonomy, disclosure, stigma, harassment, pornography, trauma, masturbation, consent, boundaries and safety in our media-saturated world, puberty and reproduction that includes trans, non-binary, and intersex bodies and experience, and more. Racially and ethnically diverse, inclusive of cross-disability experience, this is a book for every kind of young person and every kind of family. You Know, Sex is the first thoroughly modern sex ed book for every body navigating puberty and adolesence, essential for kids, everyone who knows a kid, and anyone who has ever been a kid"--From publisher.

Ages 10-14. Seven Stories Press.

Grades 7-9. Seven Stories Press.

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