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  My Little Red Book

  by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff

  MY LITTLE RED BOOK is an anthology of stories about first periods, collected from women of all ages from around the world. The accounts range from light-hearted (the editor got hers while water skiing in a yellow bathing suit) to heart-stopping (a first period discovered just as one girl was about to be strip-searched by the Nazis). The contributors include well-known women writers (Meg Cabot, Erica Jong, Gloria... (more)
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  MacKenzie Blue: Book 3

  Friends Forever?

  by Tina Wells

  "Tweens will enjoy the IM chats and earnest lists that Zee writes." (Publishers Weekly (for Mackenzie Blue) ) "A lighthearted series, sure to please girls all too aware of the impending approach of middle school." (ALA Booklist )
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  The Alice Series: Book 1

  The Agony of Alice

  by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Alice McKinley is about to become a teenager, but she doesn't know how. Her mother has been dead for years, and what do her father and her nineteen-year-old brother, Lester, know about being a teenage girl? If only she had a role model, like the beautiful sixth-grade teacher Miss Cole. But instead Alice gets assigned to plain, pear-shaped Mrs. Plotkin's class. Is Alice doomed to a life of one embarrassment... (more)
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  Is This Normal?

  Girl's Questions, Answered by the Editors of "The Care & Keeping of You"

  Grade 3-6–Created as a companion to The Care & Keeping of YOU (American Girl, 2009), this set of questions and answers has been adapted from American Girl magazine's column. Topics range from body hair and shaving to menstruation and breast development to talking to a trusted adult about puberty. While the advice covers familiar ground, the tone of the book is comforting. After reading what the experts... (more)