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This graphic novel answers your questions about anxiety:; What is the difference between fear and excitement?; How do the mind and body make emotions?; When can anxiety be good?; Addressing these questions and more, this science-based graphic guide reveals just how strange anxiety is. By knowing th…
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This graphic novel answers your questions about trauma:; What is trauma?; How does it change the way our brains work?; And how can we overcome it?; Squeeze any human hard enough and they will be overwhelmed.; This comic explains the strange nature of trauma and how it confuses the brain and affects…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, May 17, 2024 |
This graphic novel answers your questions about pain:; How can I change my pain experience?; What is pain?; How do nerves work?; Answering these questions and more, this research-based book reveals just how strange pain is and how understanding it is often the key to relieving its effects. With gen…
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In this guide, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in gender-nonconforming youth offers real tools to help your child thrive in all aspects of life. You and your child will discover a more expansive way of understanding gender; gain insight into gender diverse thoughts, feelings, and …
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Ellie and Casey are back to talk about gender!; In this gloriously illustrated guide to gender identity, you'll meet demiboys and demigirls, agender people, greygender people, those who are AFAB and AMAB, and many more as Ellie and Casey guide curious children through the world of people who don't …
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, March 15, 2024 |
Why is this book important? We know that transgender kids and their families need specialized information. Alarmingly, the suicide attempt rate among trans youth is close to half! This book is intended to give gender non-conforming kids some of the information they need to grow to be happy, product…
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In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic auto…
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A guide for parents, clinicians, and educators on both the philosophical dilemmas and the practical, daily concerns of working with children who do not fit a "typical" gender mold.; Table of Contents:; Chapter 1 Relearning gender; Chapter 2 The family's path is covered with roses and thorns; Chapte…
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This vibrant and beautifully illustrated book educates children about sex, gender, and relationships in a way that is inclusive of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Covering puberty, hormones, pregnancy, consent, sex, babies, relationships, and families, it uses gender-neutral language…
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A comprehensive workbook to navigate gender identity and expression at home, in school, and with peers.
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Mother and teen duo Monica and Asha Mehta work together to answer your most pressing questions. Forget the penis-in-vagina basics - this is a queer friendly guide that'll have you rethinking the very definition of sex. Combining expert advice with the personal experiences of teens all over the worl…
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Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron's frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her family's adventures of distress and happiness raising a gender-creative son. Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, her younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around…
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Ever since its initial publication in 2008, The Transgender Child has been lauded as the most trusted source of information for families wanting to understand and affirm their transgender, gender-expansive, or nonbinary child. Utilized around the world and translated into multiple languages, The Tr…
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If you're transgender, non-binary, or any other gender under the wide and wonderful trans umbrella, this book is for you. A creative journal and workbook with a difference, this book combines coloring pages celebrating trans identity, beauty and relationships, with practical advice, journaling prom…
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L'uniforme, Oui ! La jupe, Non ! Liberté, égalité, pantalon !Liv (ne l'appelez pas Olivia, il déteste ça) sait depuis toujours qu'il est un garçon et non une fille, mais le règlement très strict de son collège en matière d'uniforme lui interdit de porter un pantalon. Il lui faudra donc porter des j…
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The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkw…
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The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkw…
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The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkw…
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A comprehensive guide to the medical, emotional and social issues of trans children.
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Meet Hope, a child who despite being born in a boy's body has always felt like a girl inside. Follow a journey of self awareness as Hope expresses the need to live authentically for the first time. Hope's parents provide a supportive environment where Hope enjoys self expression without worry or ju…
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