Friday, July 22, 2022

You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things

You know, sex : a book about bodies, gender, puberty, and other things 
by Cory Silverberg 
illus. by Fiona Smyth 
Language: English 
New York : Seven Stories Press, 2022. 
432 p. : col. ill. ; cm. 
ISBN: 9781644210802 ; 1644210800 
Summary: In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty—hormones, reproduction, and development—but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being. Centering young people’s experiences of pressures and joy, risk and reward, and confusion and discovery, there are chapters on body autonomy, disclosure, stigma, harassment, pornography, trauma, masturbation, consent, boundaries and safety in our media-saturated world, puberty and reproduction that includes trans, non-binary, and intersex bodies and experience, and more. Racially and ethnically diverse, inclusive of cross-disability experience, this is a book for every kind of young person and every kind of family. You Know, Sex is the first thoroughly modern sex ed book for every body navigating puberty and adolesence, essential for kids, everyone who knows a kid, and anyone who has ever been a kid. 

Hjalte Donut 3

Værste bedste sommer (Hjalte Donut, 3) 
by Anja Hitz 
Language: Danish 
[Helsingør] : ABC, 2022. 
140 sider : ill. i farver 
ISBN: 9788775890194 
Summary: ”Det bliver bare mit livs bedste sommerferie,” siger Krusemynte. Det giver et lille stik i maven. Jeg ved ikke hvorfor. Hver dag må gerne være hendes livs bedste. Men en hel måned uden mig. Hvordan kan hun glæde sig så meget til det? ”Men jeg kommer selvfølgelig til at savne jer begge to helt vildt,” siger hun og blinker til mig. ”Jeg får ikke tid til at savne jer en skid,” udbryder Viktor. ”Jeg får alt for travlt med at skyde med harpun nede på bunden af havet.” Lalandia! tænker jeg. Det kan også noget. Især når man er i det helt rigtige selskab ... Sjette klasse er slut for altid. Krusemynte og Viktor er væk det meste af ferien, men så har Hjalte heldigvis gode planer med Alex og den nye familie. Eller har han? Pludselig er ferien fyldt med Selina og ting, der går galt. Selv Mulle har ændret sig... Dette er den tredje bog i serien om Hjalte Donut.

Saturday, April 30, 2022

Where the sky llives

Where the Sky Lives 
by Margaret Dilloway 
Language: English 
HarperCollins Publishers 2022. 
336 p. 
ISBN: 9780063047242 ; 0063047241 
Summary: When life doesn’t make sense, twelve-year-old amateur astronomer Tuesday Beals has always looked to the stars above Zion National Park, where she lives. Her beloved late uncle Ezra taught her astronomy, but now their special stargazing sites are all she has left of him, along with his ashes and a poem that may be a riddle. Then a new housing development next door threatens to ruin the night skies and her favorite astronomy spots. Desperate to focus on something besides the growing uncle-sized chasm between her and her mother, the park archeologist, Tuesday takes up photography with her best friend, Carter, after they find an abandoned camera. With this new way of seeing the universe, she tries to solve her uncle’s riddle to save the land. But one day, a photo reveals clues about an endangered animal—one that could halt construction. Will the discovery be enough to save the park and keep the rest of her world from falling apart?

Sunday, February 27, 2022

I Kissed Shara Wheeler

I Kissed Shara Wheeler 
by Casey McQuiston 
Language: English 
Wednesday Books, 2022. 
368 p. ; cm. 
ISBN: 1250244455 ; 9781250244451 
Summary: After seventeen-year-olds Chloe and Shara, Chloe's rival for valedictorian, kiss, Shara vanishes leaving Chloe and two boys, who are also enamored with Shara, to follow the trail of clues she left behind, but during the search, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to Shara and her small Alabama town than she thought. 

Monday, February 21, 2022

Flight of the Puffin

Flight of the Puffin 
by Ann Braden 
Language: English 
New York : Penguin Young Readers Group, 2021. 
229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. 
ISBN: 9781984816061 ; 1984816063 
Summary: Told in multiple voices, seventh-grader Libby sets off a chain of events that brings hope and encouragement to four different individuals across the country who are dealing with bullies, acceptance, homelessness, and grief. 

Maizy Chen's last chance

Maizy Chen's last chance 
by Lisa Yee 
Language: English 
New York : Random House, [2022] ©2022. 
276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. 
ISBN: 9781984830258 ; 1984830252 
Summary: Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself. 

Field Notes on Love

Field Notes on Love 
by Jennifer E. Smith 
Language: English 
Ember, 2020. 
274 pages ; 21 cm. 
ISBN: 0399559442 ; 9780399559440 
Summary: It's the perfect idea for a romantic week together: traveling across America by train. But then Hugo's girlfriend dumps him. Her parting gift: the tickets for their long-planned last-hurrah-before-college trip. Only, it's been booked under her name. Nontransferable, no exceptions. Mae is still reeling from being rejected from USC's film school. When she stumbles across Hugo's ad for a replacement Margaret Campbell (her full name!), she's certain it's exactly the adventure she needs to shake off her disappointment and jump-start her next film. A cross-country train trip with a complete stranger might not seem like the best idea. But to Mae and Hugo, both eager to escape their regular lives, it makes perfect sense. What starts as a convenient arrangement soon turns into something more. But when life outside the train catches up to them, can they find a way to keep their feelings for each other from getting derailed? 

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Hjalte Donut 2 - venner, som k*****

Hjalte Donut 2 - venner, som k***** 
by Anja Hitz 
Language: Danish 
[Helsingør] : ABC, 2021. 
137 sider : ill. 
ISBN: 9788779169470 ; 8779169473 
Summary: Det er ikke helt nemt at være Hjalte. Mulle fra donorgruppen vil igen have Hjalte til at hjælpe sig, og endnu engang handler det om kys og kærester. Hjalte får tilbud om at være spilfigur, men han synes, han ligner en syg bæver på Veras tegninger. Mor kritiserer Alex og har svært ved at dele Hjalte med ham. Og så er der det med Krusemynte. Er hun og Hjalte bare bedste venner, eller er de blevet noget andet ... 

Hjalte Donut

Hjalte Donut 
by Anja Hitz 
illus. by Birgitte Ahlmann 
Language: Danish 
ABC Forlag : [sælges på internettet], 2020. 
p. ; cm. 
ISBN: 9788779168619 ; 8779168612 
Summary: ”Hvorfor skal du overhovedet kysse med en hel masse?” Jeg kan mærke, at jeg bliver helt rød i hovedet, da jeg selv siger kysse. ”Jeg prøver nogle forskellige, og så ser jeg, hvem jeg vil gå efter,” siger Mulle. Hjalte har ingen far. I hvert fald ikke en han nogensinde kommer til at kende. Sådan er det bare at være donorbarn. 

Donor Child: a child of love

Donor Child: a child of love 
by Emma Grønbæk 
Language: English and Danish 
Denmark: Saxo, 2021. 
123 pages 
ISBN: 8740401863 ; 9788740401868 
Summary: In this book, you will meet me, Emma, and my family. I share my story of being a donor child, how it has impacted my life, my parents' involuntary childlessness, and how we have dealt with donor conception in my family. Against the advice from doctors, my parents choose from the beginning to tell me the truth about the help they had received to become a family. Today, my parents have three children, all of whom have come into the world through fertility treatments. Our story is not unique. Many couples worldwide have difficulty having children and this means that up to every 10th child is born with the help of fertility treatments. I have invited leading Danish specialists to put my personal story in perspective with their knowledge of fertility treatment, choice of donor, relationships, and family life. Read the book as a impute on the debate regarding donor use and how it can influence children who are conceived through fertility treatments with donor conception. 

The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are

The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are 
by Libby Copeland 
Language: English 
New York : Abrams Press, 2020. 
ISBN: 9781419747939 ; 1419747932 
Summary: Journalist Libby Copeland explores the culture of genealogy buffs, the science of DNA, and the business of companies like Ancestry, and delves into the lives that have been changed by home DNA tests. 

Triple Helix : My donor-conceived story

Triple Helix : My donor-conceived story 
by Lauren Burns 
Language: English 
St. Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press, 2022. 
v. ; 23 cm. 
ISBN: 9780702265433 ; 0702265438 
Summary: The compelling story of one woman's journey to find out the truth about her paternity-and to come to grips with the rewriting of her own history and sense of identity. 

Brave new humans : the dirty reality of donor conception

Brave new humans : the dirty reality of donor conception 
by Sarah Dingle 
Language: English 
Richmond, VIC : Hardie Grant Books, 2021. 
vi, 345 pages ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9781743796382 ; 1743796382 
Summary: Journalist Sarah Dingle was 27 when she learned that her identity was a lie. Over dinner one night, her mother casually mentioned Sarah had been conceived using a sperm donor. The man who'd raised Sarah wasn't her father; in fact, she had no idea who her father was. Or who she really was. As the shock receded, Sarah put her professional skills to work and began to investigate her own existence. Thus began a ten-year journey to understand who she was - digging through hospital records, chasing leads, and taking a DNA test - that finally led her to her biological origins. What she discovered along the way was shocking: hospital records routinely destroyed, trading of eggs and sperm, women dead, donors exploited, and hundreds of thousands of donor-conceived people globally who will never know who they are. But there's one thing this industry hasn't banked on: the children of the baby business taking on their makers. In a profoundly personal way, Brave New Humans shines a light on the global fertility business today - a booming and largely unregulated industry that takes a startlingly lax approach to huge ethical concerns, not least our fundamental human need to know who we are, and where we come from. 

Uprooted : family trauma, unknown origins, and the secretive history of artificial insemination

Uprooted : family trauma, unknown origins, and the secretive history of artificial insemination 
by Peter J. Boni 
Language: English 
Austin, Texas : Greenleaf Book Group Press, [2022]. 
xv, 268 pages ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 162634907X ; 9781626349070 
Summary: How a journey of self-discovery unearthed the scandalous evolution of artificial insemination. Just before his fiftieth birthday, Peter's seventy-five-year-old mother unveiled a bombshell: His deceased father was not biological. Peter was conceived in 1945 via an anonymous sperm donor. 

The Science of Being Angry

The Science of Being Angry 
by Nicole Melleby 
Language: English 
Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin of Chapel Hill, 2022. 
288 p. : cm. 
ISBN: 1643750372 ; 9781643750378 
Summary: Eleven-year-old Joey navigates family, friendships, and her first crush, while looking for answers to why she feels so angry sometimes and by searching for the donor her moms chose.

The Epic Story of Every Living Thing

The Epic Story of Every Living Thing 
by Deb Caletti 
Language: English 
New York : Labyrinth Road, 2022. 
p. ; cm. 
ISBN: 0593485513 ; 9780593485514 
Summary: Harper Proulx has lived her whole life with unanswered questions about her anonymous sperm donor father. She's convinced that without knowing him, she can't know herself. When a chance Instagram post connects Harper to a half-sibling, that connection yields many more and ultimately leads Harper to uncover her father's identity. 

Love somebody

Love somebody 
by Rachel Roasek 
Language: English 
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2022. 
357 pages ; 22 cm. 
ISBN: 0374388962 ; 978-0374388966
  • Summary: Seventeen-year-old overachiever Sam attempts to encourage a love connection between her athletic ex-boyfriend Christian and her academic rival Ros while trying not to fall for Ros herself.