Non-Fiction > Social Issues
Girl Talk by Lizzie Cox
22.00 NZD
Category: Teenage Issues | Series: Growing Up
This essential guide to growing up for girls covers everything children have always wanted to know but were afraid to ask. Friendly and funny text features case studies and questions from 'real-life' anonymous readers to encourage the idea that different experiences are still normal. Subjects that might ...Show more
Letting Go: A Girl's Guide to Breaking Free of Stress and Anxiety by Christine Fonseca
35.00 NZD
Category: Teenage Issues
Do you ever feel like you'll never be perfect? Do you worry that what you say or do or wear will be how people remember you? It's time to let go of those worries and embrace who you are. Letting Go: A Girl's Guide to Breaking Free of Stress and Anxiety has everything you need to help you understand and ...Show more
Soup and Bread by Nonen Titi
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
For Vonnie, 12, dinnertime means Mum complaining that she's picky; school means PE (ugh!) and bullies - but she has learned to ignore them. But now Mum is threatening to make soup and bread for every meal, and Frank, the new kid, is picking fights. Vonnie can't ignore them but she feels she can't do an ...Show more
The Power Book by Roxane Gay; Minna Salami; Georgia Amson-Bradshaw; Claire Saunders; Mik Scarlet; Hazel Songhurst
33.00 NZD
Category: Social Issues
What makes you the boss of me? What makes a king a king, or a queen a queen? Why can some people vote for their leaders, but other people can't? Does having lots of money make you powerful? Why are there fewer female scientists, leaders and artists than men in history books? These are things that chi ...Show more
It's Perfectly Normal - Changing Bodies, Growing up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris
40.00 NZD
Category: Sex Education | Series: The Family Library
Millions of kids and teens have turned to It's Perfectly Normal for honest, reliable, accurate, up-to-date, and accessible information to answer their questions and concerns about: Puberty, Sex, Gender, Sexual health, Reproduction, Birth control, Pregnancy, Birth, Families, LGBTQ+, Social media, The Int ...Show more
Yay! You're Gay! Now What? by Riyadh Khalaf
23.00 NZD
Category: Teenage Issues
Yay! You're gay! Or maybe you're bi. Or maybe you just feel different... in time, that difference will become the greatest gift you could ask for. It will bring you love, a sense of identity, a new community, and eventually the freedom to be yourself. I promise! In this personal, heartfelt go-to guide ...Show more
Girl Talk: A Survival Guide to Growing Up by Caroline Plaisted
15.00 NZD
Category: Teenage Issues | Series: Growing Up
Your hair is greasy, spots are cropping up all over the place and your family is suddenly driving you crazy...What's going on? Growing up can be a rollercoaster ride, but it can be whole lot easier if you know what to expect. With advice on everything from bras to bad breath, you can relax - this guide ...Show more
What is it Like to be Me?: A Book About a Boy with Asperger's Syndrome by Alenka Klemenc
44.00 NZD
Category: Social Issues
Join Greg, a young boy with Asperger's syndrome (AS), as he tells us all about the world as he sees and experiences it. We learn about all the things he loves, including his routine and numbers, as well as his special interest in batteries (he even has a rectangular one!). Greg also tells us about the t ...Show more
How Not To Lose It: Mental Health Sorted by Anna Williamson
20.00 NZD
Category: Health and Nutrition | Series: Mental Helath, Panic Attacks, Stress, Anxiety, Bullying
The go-to mental health guide for kids! Exam stress? Friendship issues? Panic attacks? How Not to Lose It will help you be the boss of all of this, and more. It's not just your body that should be fit and healthy - your mind needs to be, too! How Not to Lose It is the go-to guide for achieving a bala ...Show more
My Journey Starts Here: A Guided Journal to Improve Your Mental Well-Being by Thornton Jazz
30.00 NZD
Category: Social Issues
Jazz Thornton has achieved huge international recognition for her work in advocacy for mental health and the use of voices of lived experience to provide hope to those who are struggling. This journal, written with Genevieve Mora, her co-founder of the organisation Voices of Hope, provides a creative ap ...Show more
Unexpected Challenges (Build Resilience) by Honor Head
24.00 NZD
Category: Social Issues | Series: Build Resilience
Young children can find the world we live in daunting and a bit scary. There's just so much going on with new schools, making friends and even things like climate change. This book will help young readers to develop a flexible mindset and to explore feelings around UNEXPECTED CHALLENGES in a gentle and ...Show more
Earth Heroes: Twenty Inspiring Stories of People Saving Our World by Lily Dyu
23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
When faced with climate change, the biggest threat that our planet has ever confronted, it's easy to feel as if nothing you do can really make a difference . . . but this book proves that individual people can change the world. With twenty inspirational stories celebrating the pioneering work of a selec ...Show more