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Teen Health & Wellness
(You'll need a library card to access this database.) A comprehensive database where teens can research health-related issues important to their well-being. Both a research/report tool and a self-help resource, it includes
AVERT
AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, with the aim of AVERTing HIV and AIDS worldwide.
The Center for Young Women's Health - Children's Hospital Boston
A guide to healthy relationships.
Cool Nurse
Cool Nurse was created to help today's teen and young adult achieve and maintain a high level of health, fitness and well-being. Includes information about having healthy relationships as well as many other health-related topics.
Teen Relationships
A website about relationships for teens by teens that includes information about what it means to be in a healthy relationship and suggestions for what to do if you’re not.
TeenHelp.org
An anonymous support and advice site where anyone can come for help with a problem or question.
Teenwire.com
An award-winning sexual health website for teens.

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Barnes, Jessica. GirlSource: a book by and for young women about relationships, rights, futures, bodies, minds, and souls / created by the GirlSource editorial team
(2003)
Call number: 305.2352 G4439 2003
Burnham, Niki. Scary Beautiful
(2006) Chloe's serious relationship ends when her boyfriend moves across the country. Now that beautiful Chloe is unattached, she finds everyone in her junior high school class treats her differently.
Call number: Fiction Burnham
Busby, Cylin. Getting Dumped And Getting Over It!
(2001) Explores what it can feel like when a boy ends a relationship and how to deal with those feelings, including suggestions from girls who have survived break-ups.
Call number: 646.77 B9602g 2001
Canfield, Jack. Chicken Soup For the Teenage Soul on Love & Friendship
(2002) Teen contributors share their thoughts and feelings about breakups, forgiveness, love and kindness, their closest relationships and many other topics.
Call number: 158.1280835 C1627c 2002
Carnegie, Donna Dale. How to win friends and influence people for teen girls
(2005)
Call number: 158.20835 C2152h 2005
Clarke, Kathryn. The Breakable Vow
(2004) After eighteen-year-old Annie becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she marries her boyfriend, but slowly realizes that he is abusive and that she must decide what she can and will do about the relationship and to keep her daughter and herself safe. Includes information on the characteristics of abusive relationships and how to end them.
Call number: Fiction Clarke
Desetta, Al, ed. The courage to be yourself: true stories by teens about cliques, conflicts, and overcoming peer pressure
(2005)
Call number: 305.235 C833 2005
Frankenberger, Elzabeth. Crushes, creeps, and classmates: a girl's guide to getting along with boys
(1999) Outlines some of the differences between boys and girls, including physical and behavioral, and gives adolescent girls advice about boy-girl relationships.
Call number: 305.235 F852c 1999
Harper, Suzanne, ed. Hands on!: 33 more things every girl should know: skills for living your life from 33 extraordinary women
(2001) Shares stories by thirty-three women offering inspiration in careers and relationships as well as practical advice about such things as car maintenance, investing, why taking care of your body now is important for good health later, reasons to get a mentor, and more.
Call number: 646.700835 H1926 2001
Hernández, Roger E. Teens & relationships
(2005) Uses data from the Gallup Youth Survey and other sources to examine issues related to teens and their relationships with parents and peers. Teenagers have many different kinds of relationships: with their parents and grandparents, with their brothers or sisters, with their friends, and even with romantic partners. In contrast to media portrayals of teen life, the Gallup Youth Survey indicates that the lives of most young people are not filled with angst and rebellion. This book examines American youth culture and its role in the relationships of young people, and explores how most teens view their interactions with others
Call number: 158.20835 H4308t 2005 TEEN
Johnson, Angela. The First Part Last
(2003) Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
Call number: Fiction Johnson
Kelly, Tara E. Dating And Relating: A Guy's Guide To Girls
(2000) Discusses boys' relationships to girls as they begin adolescence, including puberty, friendships, dating, and sex.
Call number: 646.77 K298d 2000
Levine, Gail Carson. Fairest
(2006) In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
Call number: Fiction Levine
Lookadoo, Justin. Dateable: Are You? Are They?
(2003) Explores teen dating from a Christian perspective, including how to determine whether a relationship is worth pursuing, and how to redirect one's passion toward life goals and trust the Creator to bring one's true love.
Call number: 306.70835 L8726d 2003
Mackler, Carolyn. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things
(2003) Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
Call number: Fiction Mackler
Mannarino, Melanie. The boyfriend clinic: the final word on flirting, dating, guys, and love
(2000) Offers advice to teenage girls with questions about how to get a boyfriend and what to do once you've got one.
Call number: 646.7708352 M3161b 2000
Olsen, Sylvia. The Girl With A Baby
(2003) Jane has always been the good Williams. Her brothers might be high school dropouts and late-night rowdy partiers, but never Jane. Now she's one of those: the teenage mothers packing diaper bags with their knapsacks, wheeling strollers into the high school daycare, tired and grumpy.
Call number: Fiction Olsen
Packer, Alex J. The how rude! handbook of friendship & dating manners for teens
(2004)
Call number: 395.123 P127h 2004
Peacock, Judith. Dating and sex: defining and setting boundaries
(2001) Explains the essential elements of a healthy dating relationship and offers advice on deciding about sex and recovering from a breakup.
Call number: 306.73 P3136d 2001
Schneider, Meg F. The Rules for Teens
(2000)
Call number: 305.235 Sch583r 2000
Scott, Kieran. Brunettes Strike Back
(2006) Still the only non-blonde on her Florida cheerleading squad, sixteen-year-old Annisa makes some decisions about how far she will go to fit in with her team while also staying true to herself.
Call number: Fiction Scott
Vizzini, Ned. Be More Chill
(2005) Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.
Call number: Fiction Vizzini
Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies
(2005) Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.
Call number: Fiction Westerfeld Pbk TEEN
White, Katherine. Everything you need to know about relationship violence
(2001) Presents an overview of dating violence among teenagers, including physical, verbal, and sexual abuse, discusses the qualities of a healthy relationship, and suggests ways to get out of and avoid abusive situations.
Call number: 306.73 W5845e 2001

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