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Sex education

a novel
As a project for an unusually open class in sex education, Livvie and her boyfriend David learn to care for a pregnant young neighbor, and as they become deeply involved with her and with each other, they learn about love and caring.

Journey into life

human reproduction
Presents camera footage following the creation of a human life from conception to birth, showing the inside of the reproductive organs, the journey of the ovum to the uterus, sperm passing the cervix, cell differentiation, and the growth of the embryo into a fetus, and includes computer animation of the transmission of genetic material to the child.

Plan B

Lucy has her life mapped out, thinking she will join her boyfriend Luke at college, become a Spanish teacher, get married, and live happily ever after, but when Lucy learns she is pregnant, she is forced to make the most difficult decision of her life.

Gabi, a girl in pieces

Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, her friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.

November blues

Shortly after her boyfriend Josh is killed in a pledging accident, November Nelson learns she is pregnant and fears she has no one to turn to, until she finds solace in the arms of Josh's cousin Jericho.

Lucy Castor finds her sparkle

2018
Lucy s life is perfect and she doesn t want to change a thing. With everyone growing up around her, Lucy just wants everything to just stay the way it is. Then she discovers her mother is having another baby and Lucy is sure that her parents don t want her anymore. Classic, heartwarming, and quirky, this cozy story is about holding onto the magic of childhood.
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9 months that made you

2015
Discover the thrilling story of how you were made, from the moment of conception to the moment of birth 280 days later.

A girl named Mister

A pregnant teenager finds support and forgiveness from God through a book of poetry presented from the Virgin Mary's perspective.

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

2019
Readers will learn about the nature of Jefferson's connection to someone who was legally his property, and about his descendants, both black and white.

Split tooth

A girl in Nunavut grows up in the 1970s, experiencing joy, friendship, the love of her parents, boredom, listlessness, and bullying, tedium, the raw power of ice and sky, the energy of the animal world, and the horrors of alcohol and violence--and above all the spirits that surround her in the world and draw her into something bigger than herself when she finally becomes pregnant.
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