sex

Explores the power sex has on all aspects and levels of life, and sometimes sex is more important than life.

A collection of eleven stories by award-winning authors that explore the many varieties of teenage desire, including first crushes, first kisses, and first times.

Introduces readers to controversial topics in human sexuality by presenting a variety of viewpoints.

Sixteen-year-old Brian struggles with life at a new school, his sexual desires, and his unresolved feelings about the loss of his older brother.

A guide that cuts through the confusion surrounding AIDS and helps those it concerns to arrive at a rational course of action to reduce personal risk.

Presents a collection of ten stories for young adults that explore various aspects of love and sexuality, featuring selections by Joan Bauer, Chris Lynch, Emma Donoghue, and more.

At fifteen, Nina Oberon lives in a totalitarian future society in which all girls are required to get a Governing Council-ordered "XVI" wrist tattoo on their sixteenth birthdays, announcing to the world that they are ready for sex, a claim Nina is not prepared to make, and when her mother is attacked right before Nina's birthday, she reveals a shocking truth with her dying breaths and Nina is left to care for her younger sister and try to discover who she really is, all the while staying one step ahead of her mother's killer.

Susannah and her family move to the Sierras in Mexico, and while they are there, their lives are forever changed by the Mundo people who live there.

During the summer after her sophomore year, Deanna Lambert tries to come to terms with the reputation with which she was slapped in the eighth grade when she was caught by her father in the backseat of a car with a high school senior, and struggles with her still-strained relationship with her father and her changing feelings for her best friend, Jason.