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What's Going on Down There?

A Boy's Guide to Growing Up

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"A useful and readable guide to puberty for boys." -School Library Journal

Part manual, part older brother,
this accessible guidebook from Karen Gravelle, the author of the perennial bestseller The Period Book, will empower adolescent boys with honest answers to all of their questions about what's really going on down there.
With 150,000 copies sold, this definitive illustrated guidebook to puberty—now updated with brand new content relevant to today's kids—is the perfect companion for boys and parents seeking information about growing up and their changing bodies. The book addresses physical and emotional changes boys might expect, discusses what puberty is like for girls, and prepares readers to make smart choices about sex. Written in consultation with preteen boys, this guide offers a supportive, practical approach, providing clear and sensitive explanations of common experiences.
This revised edition features new sections on:
- body image and confidence
- sexual harassment and consent
- using social media safely
Complete with funny and informative interior illustrations from Robert Leighton, the updated edition of What's Going on Down There? will give boys the facts they need to feel confident about this new phase of their lives.
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    • School Library Journal

      December 1, 1998
      Gr 5-10-The author of The Period Book (Walker, 1996) teams up with two teenage consultants to provide a useful and readable guide to puberty for boys. Written in the voice of a trusted adult, this title deftly covers physical changes, sexual intercourse, peer pressure, and pregnancy and birth. Gravelle reassures readers that there are a lot of different ways to describe normal when discussing puberty, and that each person will experience changes on his own timetable. The book balances information about being a sexual person with that of being a responsible person. While providing detailed and accurate information on genital size, birth-control devices, and sexually transmitted diseases, there is also an emphasis on the psychological changes occurring at the same time. Homosexuality and bisexuality are covered in a frank and open manner. The chapter "Girls Are Changing Too" discusses changes readers can expect to see in their female friends and has detailed illustrations and information not typically presented in books for males. The text is complemented by comic-book style illustrations that serve to lighten the sometimes serious subject matter.-Katie O'Dell Madison, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR

    • Booklist

      November 1, 1998
      Gr. 6^-9. Aided by two teenagers, Gravelle does for boys what she and her daughter did for girls in "The Period Book" (1996). As in the first book, the tone here is forthright without being sober or scary. Facts about puberty, sex, and sexually transmitted diseases, and also what happens to girls during puberty are presented clearly and completely, along with answers to an assortment of related questions. The authors also manage to slip in some counsel about wise decision making, though the emphasis is on information, not values. This is similar in scope to Paulette Bourgeois and Martin Wolfish's "Changes in You & Me: A Book about Puberty, Mostly in Boys" (1994), but it is much more thorough and contains a very detailed chapter on types of birth control, which Bourgeois and Wolfish barely mention. Teens looking for information about homosexuality will probably need to go elsewhere--to one of Thomas Ford's excellent books, perhaps--for a better discussion. Otherwise, this is a fine book, with lots of great cartoon artwork that adds fine comedy without compromising the importance of the subject. ((Reviewed November 1, 1998))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1998, American Library Association.)

    • The Horn Book

      January 1, 1999
      With Nick and Chava Castro. Gravelle (and her two teenage "advisors") takes a forthright approach to such topics as puberty, penis size, masturbation, sexual intercourse, reproduction, and STDs. The tone is candid and the advice objective. Diagrams are helpful, and cartoons lighten the mood, although it's too bad that the pictures and the text conspire to portray sperm as self-motivated "vigorous little swimmers."

      (Copyright 1999 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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