Category: Sex Education
Figuring out how to build and maintain healthy relationships - with your family, friends, romantically and with yourself - is a crucial part of being a teen. It's not easy though, particularly in a digital age where information and advice are so forthcoming it can be hard to know who or what to believe ...Show more
Category: Teenage Issues
Sometimes life can be pretty amazing. But other times it feels like: A. Your heart and stomach have been steamrolled into a grisly organ pancakeB. You are being put through an emotional spiralizer that creates human courgettiC. Both of the above. You're a courgetti pancake No, Instagram filters won't ma ...Show more
Category: Teenage Issues
"Consent is not the absence of 'NO', it is an enthusiastic YES!!" While seemingly straightforward, Tia and Bryony hadn't considered this subject too seriously until it comes up in conversation with their friends and they realise just how important it is. Following the sexual assault of a classmate, a g ...Show more
Category: Teenage Issues
An urgently needed guide to the alarming rate of psychological stress experienced by girls from the age of ten through to adulthood, from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled .
Category: Teenage Issues
A frank, funny, age-appropriate guide for pre-teens about getting your period, from Dr Melissa Kang (a former Dolly Doctor) and Yumi Stynes (all-round excellent woman). Getting your period for the first time can be mortifying, weird and messy - and asking questions about it can feel even worse. But it ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues | Series: My Life, Your Life
A sensitive book that explores the issue of people who feel they do belong to the gender they were born with. It looks at what this means for the person and their family, issues around school policy, bullying and discrimination and explores the journey of transitioning. The book was produced with a cons ...Show more
Category: Teenage Issues
Getting friendships right isn't easy. It's hard to find great friends, and even harder to hold on to them when rumours swirl or dramas unfold. But don't worry; psychologist and friendship expert Dr Angharad Rudkin and fabulous children's author Ruth Fitzgerald are here to show you how to find - and keep ...Show more
Category: Teenage Issues
Written by teenage expert, Nicola Morgan, 'Body Brilliant' will help teenagers to develop or retain a positive body image. We're all bombarded with information and images - through the media and our peers - about being too big, too small, being cool, being popular or having the 'right' kind of clothes. ...Show more
Category: NZ Non Fiction
How do you figure out what sort of work is right for you? Do you choose university, find a trade, or get a job? What subjects do you study to make sure you then find work? What if you choose a course or job you don’t like? What if you decide on a line of work that doesn’t exist in five years ...Show more
Category: Teenage Issues
Ith friends, social media, body image, and more, navigating young adulthood can seem impossible, Follow Instagram's loveable Chrostin as she provides humorous and relatable advice for all of the struggles you face, like: Sticking up for yourself, Dealing with your body, Creating your own fashion, Eating ...Show more
Category: Teenage Issues
This stylish, colourful, graphic-rich, single edition youth magazine is specifically written for New Zealand young people who are facing tough times, or to support others they know. It is written with honesty and frankness, and tackles difficult issues teens may face that can cause change, trauma, loss ...Show more
Category: Teenage Issues
Positively Teenage gives you tools to approach your teenage years with optimism and understanding and to develop real wellbeing for life. The media so often portray adolescence negatively but this book shows you how to approach these years far more positively so that you can really flourish and be in co ...Show more
