PeriodDiscusses menstruation and other related mental and physical changes girls experience, gives suggestions for coping with these changes, and explains what happens during a pelvic exam. |
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User Review - PhantomoftheLibrary - LibraryThing"Period.: A Girl's Guide" is a book that focuses on, that's right, periods! Although the book seems to market itself specifically to young women, it's written in such a way that anyone, woman or man ... Read full review
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User Review - mrslmt - Overstock.comI bought this book for my 10 year old. I was nervous about how much info the book would give and afraid it might be over the top. Not the case. Wonderful book tastefully done and very age appropriate ... Read full review
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Period: A Girl's Guide to Menstration with a Parent's Guide JoAnn Loulan,Bonnie Worthen Limited preview - 2001 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Period |
| Authors | JoAnn Loulan, Bonnie Worthen, Bonnie Lopez, Marcia Quackenbush |
| Photographs by | Marcia Quackenbush |
| Illustrated by | Marcia Quackenbush |
| Contributor | Bonnie Lopez |
| Edition | revised, illustrated |
| Publisher | Volcano Press, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 2, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0912078693, 9780912078694 |
| Length | 87 pages |
| Subjects | › › Family & Relationships / General Juvenile Nonfiction / Health & Daily Living / Maturing Medical / Physiology |
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