health and hygiene

Explores the hazardous conditions within which miners work as well as the risky nature of their jobs.

Discusses the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, focusing on the articles that ensure the right to good health, and looks at conditions in various places of the world that prevent children from getting the medicine, water, and food they need to stay healthy.

Offers advice to preteen girls on issues of fitness, beauty, nutrition, and self-esteem.

Provides readers tips on how to care for their bodies, discussing how to eat right, get enough exercise, and avoid substances that might harm the body. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Offers facts and information about stress management, providing alphabetically arranged entries that discuss exercise, meditation, performance anxiety, treatment, and more.

A handbook for teenagers that discusses such topics as the male and female bodies, health, grooming, emotions, sex, eating disorders, depression, drugs, and sexually transmitted diseases.

Provides information designed to help girls deal with their bodies, sexuality, emotions, relationships, school, beliefs, and other issues.

A little girl, who accumulates germs on her hands during her busy day, defeats them by washing her hands before meals.

Explains how scabs form and the healing function they serve.