teenage girls

Provides an overview of the human papillomavirus, discusses the correlation between this sexually transmitted infection and cervical cancer, and looks at controversy surrounding the vaccine.

In 1870s Arkansas, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross persuades U.S. Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn to ride into Indian Territory and help her capture the gang of outlaws who murdered her father.

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, waiting for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.

The disappearance of sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell has a dramatic and lasting impact on the teenage boys who grew up around her, and while rumors and suspicions about her absence are whispered the boys grow into men and continue to pine for the teenage girl who no longer exists.

Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has taken care of her psychotic mother, Camille, for years, but when tragedy strikes, CeeCee is rescued by her great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell, who moves CeeCee to Savannah and introduces her to an exotic, unknown world filled with eccentric women who change CeeCee's life.

The author shares her struggles with self-esteem, drug addiction, and depression; and describes how she admitted herself to a mental institution after she put her fist through a window.

The author describes her struggles with depression, concerns about family, friends, dating, body image, and the difficulties of being a teenage girl.

Seventeen-year-old Ronnie Miller is resentful when her mother insists she and her ten-year-old brother spend the summer with their estranged father in North Carolina, and while things get off to a rocky start, Ronnie eventually makes friends and begins to better understand her dad and why he wanted her to visit. Includes a reading group guide.

Collects the poetry of various authors in a hopeful celebration of the writing of girls and women.

Thirteen-year-old Caroline, living with her veteran father in a cave in the Forest Park nature preserve in Portland, is confronted by the realities of her unconventional life when she attracts the attention of government officials who relocate them to a farm, where her father works and she begins to question her past.